"Tell nobody but God": the theme of transformation in The Color Purple.(Critical essay) From: Cross Currents | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: McKever-Floyd, Preston L. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Association for Religion and Intellectual Life. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Transformation--swift and constant change--is a common thread in the tapestry of twentieth and twenty-first century life. At the beginning of the twentieth century, humans were contemplating flight by century's end excursions into out-of-space were commonplace and the perennial desire to visit the moon a reality. While the twentieth was marked by industrialization and scientific discovery, the twenty-first century is characterized by exponential growth of innovations and exchange o...