Womanist Existentialism

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Womanist ExistentialismA Search for Identity

• Or
• An Essence Seeking Understanding

By Joby John Lecturer Department of English Mar
Augusthinose College Ramapuam, Kottayam
jobykeelath_at_gmail.com 9400821853
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The Color Purple (1985)

• By
• Alice Walker

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You better not never tell anybody but God.Itd
kill your mammy.Dear God,I am fourteen years
old. I am I have always been a good girl.May be
you can give me a sign letting me know what is
happenning to me.Last spring.... alone. A week
go by he pulling on her arm again. She say now, I
aint gonna.(The Color Purple 3)
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Who am I ?
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Essence Seeking

• People are born to be and be to create their
  essence or being through their unique experiences.

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  The Color Purple is against It is also A
product of existential angst and search for
identity
Ignorance Arrogance Racism
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Cogito ergo sum.
Existence Precedes Essence
Existence precedes essence means that the man
has no pregiven essence (no essential self).
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Who am I?
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Essence seeking UNDERSTANDING
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Diamonds in the Rough
Essence seeking..............
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Most valuable diamond.
.......... UNDERSTANDING
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Selection decides HOW it should be presented
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Realize Who you are.
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Womanist Existentialism
womanism is an essence seeking understanding
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Womanist Existentialism
Denial of the GIVEN
Realization of The PREGIVEN
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One feels nothing when NEVER DARE TO BE and
NOT TO BE.
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To be is necessary to become and to become is
necessary to be
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• Humans have freedom to choose
• Each individual makes choices that create his or
  her own nature
• Because we choose, we must accept risk and
  responsibility for wherever our commitments take
  us

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Lesbianism
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Conclusion

• Existence is not prior to essence. Essence and
  existence are juxtaposed. To be is necessary to
  become and to become is necessary to be.
  Essence is how it is seen or ascribed to.

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