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Alice Walker’s first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland is the story of three generations of the Copeland family from the Southern sharecropping system in the 1920s to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Walker illuminates the racial history of the South, which is seen in her description of the Copelands’ everyday lives and her development of the novel’s three main characters—Grange Copeland, Brownfield Copeland, and Ruth Copeland. They are dominated by the oppressive and dehumanizing sharecropping system, which destroys their lives. Although the Copeland family is pained and overwhelmed, Walker dramatizes the possibility of change through the figure of Grange. Grange takes responsibility for his own life and is able to change. He can effect his own personal change, which changes Ruth and is able to pass on the possibility of surviving whole to Ruth. To achieve wholeness, Ruth must escape from the racist society and struggle toward the whole society. By reflecting on the racial experiences of the Copeland family, Walker produces a representation of the African American history and addresses social and political issues. This paper focuses on the Copeland family and will show how The Third Life of Grange Copeland is rewritten by the historical representations of the racial experiences.

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• 여재혁 [ Jae-Hyuk Yeo | 여주대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810