Paper 2

• "Duffy likes to take a familiar psychological reality and extend it as an outrageous metaphor" - Elaine Feinstein (FG)
• " It's the sadness of the real world which gives her words weight" - Charlotte Mendelson (FG)
• "Exploration of the deepest recesses of human emotion, both joy and pain" - Elizabeth O'Reilly (FG)
• Duffy has a Catholic background. She was born in Glasgow, went to the University of Liverpool and teaches at the Manchester Met.
• Civil Partnership act did not come until 2004. Equality Act not till 2010.
• 1988 - Education Act
• 1960s and 70s - second wave feminism, introduction of the contraceptive pill.
• "a lush celebration of all that it means to be female" - Adichie (TCP)
• "All Walker's women are peasants, bound to their land and husbands" - Willis
• "the ability to raise questions... is only possible when Celie begins writing her letters" - Willis
• 2nd KKK was on rise in setting of the Color Purple.
• Regan was made president the year before TCP was published.