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The paper titled: �The Emergent Woman� in Alice Walker�s �Meridian� highlights how black women are triply burdened and attempts to examine Walker�s attitude to life, love, sex, marriage, men and spirituality against the background of her powerful work, within the context of a racist, sexist and capitalist society. The focus is on spiritual survival- the survival whole of my people. But beyond that, the paper is committed to exploring the oppressions, the insanities, the loyalties and the triumphs of black women. The paper is categorized into three parts- Part 1 discusses Walker as a �Womanist� and defines in Walker�s terms what the womanist tenets imply. It also justifies the selection of the novel �Meridian� and explains how �Meridian� in the first part of the novel is introduced into �Initiation.� Part 11 discusses Meridian�s active participation in the Civil Rights Movement after the �Renunciation� of her child. Part 111 focuses on the final chapter �Ending� and on Meridian atonement and ultimate release from bondage thereby concluding that Meridian�s growth and emergence of a strong woman is successfully constructed. Conclusively, the paper justifies Alice Walker�s celebration of blackness, black roots and the aspirations of black womanhood and presents a balanced picture of black womanhood. It also describes the task of Alice Walker as a writer �to give back to black woman their own black woman self, their beauty, physical and sexual strength, motherhood, sisterhood and wifehood.