Narratology: Interchangeable Focalization in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple: Narratology: Interchangeable Focalization

Abstract

An epistolary novel is a novel written as a progression of letters traded among the characters of
the story. Centralization or perspective is a critical idea in narratology, alluding to the decision
of a point of view from which the story is told. This paper examines Alice Walker's great work
The Color Purple in the light of the centralization hypothesis created by French narratologist
Gerard Genette, who made a turning point outline between the storyteller and the central
character. It investigates four highlights of centralization utilized in this work: the constraint of
letter essayists, the adaptability of letter scholars, the exchanging of various central characters,
and the polyphonic structure in the work. This article contends from the narratological point of
view that The Color Purple has a place with a cutting-edge standard of awesome epistolary
books.