Love, Life, And Loss: The Juxtaposition of a Couple’s Matrimonial Interrelations in Alice Walker’s “The Temple of My Familiar”

Abstract

               African-American literature, its culture, and its heritage reached their pinnacle during the 1980s. Numerous Women writers engendered dominant masterpieces that lured enormous acclamation and criticism. Alice Walker had already dejected and dissociated the audience’s persuasion with the publication of The Color Purple in 1982. Walker elected and pursued some of the characters' tales in The Temple of My Familiar from The Color Purple, seven years after the novel’s publication. The Temple of My Familiar, published in 1989, is contemplated as Walker’s most preeminent work, on account of the novel’s plot, themes and leitmotifs, character evolution, and setting. This fiction was criticized for its intellectualism and discrepancy, or it failed to pique the attention of critics and readers, whereas these days, its predecessor still has the majority of the reminiscence and prominence. The pivotal aim of this paper is to target the unaccustomed essence of love and human interrelations and retrace the literary ethics in the selected novel. Fanny and Suwelo, one of the prime couples in the fiction, exhibit diverse aspects to ponder before disclosing the relationship between existence and love. This paper is a component of a broader comparison of the themes of love and relationships in the narratives of Alice Walker.