从女性主义角度论紫色中西莉的解放过程论文.doc

从女性主义角度论紫色中西莉的解放过程毕业论文Contents 摘 要…………………………………………………………………….i Abstract …………………………………………….………….………..ii Introduction……………………………………...……………….……..1 Chapter1 Feminism and Womanism…………………………….….. ..3 1.1 The Background of Womanism: Feminism in America………..…..3 1.1.1 The First Wave of American Feminism: 1840s to 1920s….........3 1.1.2 The Second Wave of American Feminism: 1960s…………..….4 1.2 Walker’s Definition of Womanism……………………………….…7 Chapter2 Double Oppression on the Black Women in The Color Purple……………………………………………….………15 2.1 As Women: Sexual and Violent Oppression from the Black Men....15 2.2 As Black People: Racial Oppression from the White People…….19 Chapter 3 Black Women’s Approach to Emancipation……………..23 3.1 Sisterhood and Its Role in Celie’s Emancipation Process…………23 3.1.1 The Role of Nettie ………………………………………..….23 3.1.2 The Role of Sofia……………………………………..………24 3.1.3 The Role of Shug…………......………………………………26 3.2 The Road of Emancipation…………………………………...……27 3.2.1 Physical and Sexual Freedom………………………………...27 3.2.2 Spiritual Freedom……………….............................................29 3.2.3 Economic Freedom………………………………….………...31 Conclusion…………………….………………………………………..33 Bibliography…………………………………..……………..…………36 Acknowledgements Introduction Throughout the ages, women have always been part of literature. They have inspired many writers, whether dramatists, novelists, poets or essayists. Unfortunately most works often depicted women as the inferior gender, a passive object that could not survive on its own and that could do nothing for itself. Women, in literature, could only exist through the eyes, minds and lives of men but never for themselves. Many of Walker’s works are inseparable from her life experience. She is very proud of her origins and she believes that the grace with which we embrace life, in spite of pain, the sorrow, is always measure of what has gone before. She was born in Eatonton, Georgia on February 9, 1944. Her father was a sharecropper and