寻找自我的历程—解读爱丽丝沃克的《紫色》.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 22 寻找自我的历程—解读爱丽丝沃克的《紫色》 摘要：爱丽丝·沃克是上世纪七十年代著名的黑人女性作家之一，她的作品通过塑造一系列黑人妇女形象，再现了黑人妇女受压迫的生活情景，表达了她们内心的倾诉。其中《紫色》是爱丽丝·沃克最出名的著作之一。《紫色》是一部书信体小说，通过描写书中人物的变化与成长，表达了爱丽丝·沃克对于人类平等社会完整发展的追求。本文将从爱丽丝·沃克的妇女主义角度着手解读《紫色》这部作品，完整的剖析女主人公西莉寻找自我的历程。 关键词：爱丽丝·沃克；紫色；妇女主义者；自我 Pilgrim of a Search for Self Analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker Abstract: Alice Walker is one of the well-known black female writers in 1970s. Her works reproduce the scenes of life of black women under oppression and express the black women’s inside thoughts through shaping a series of images of black women. The Color Purple is one of her famous works. It is an epistolary novel. It expresses Walker’s pursuit of full development of equal society through describing the changes and growths of protagonist. This thesis will analyze this novel with Alice Walker’s womanism and will dissect the protagonist Celie’s pilgrim of a search for an self. Key words: Alice Walker; the color purple; womanist; self Pilgrim of a Search for Self An Analysis of The Color Purple by Alice Walker 1. Introduction 1.1 Literature Review In the 1970s, feminist literature got great development. People are more concerned on black female writers; Alice Walker is one of the famous black female writers.?Walker was born in Putnam County, Georgia, the youngest of eight children.?One of her eyes was shot blind by her brother when she was eight, so she stayed with loneliness for a long time. Reading was her way to avoid loneliness. She began writing at a young age, her first book was written while she was a senior at Sarah Lawrence. Her works mainly focus on?the love and hate of black women, which were under great oppression from society and black men.?They show the black women’s fight for their rights and freedom. In 1982, she published what has become her best-known work, The Color Purple. The novel has?won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It also was adapted into a?film and Broadway musical o