About the book: 2004 / The life of the black country girl Celie, the heroine of the novel, is invisible against the backdrop of world history. Seeley writes letters to God, and her creator addresses the world, declaring a new cultural presence. African-American women appeared in the roles of mothers and nannies on the pages of American literature, but were not particularly interesting to anyone. Nobody paid attention to them, they were invisible. The essence of E. Walker’s text is to make the invisible visible, to give the silent the opportunity to speak out.