[摘 要]

艾丽斯· 沃克是美国黑人作家中最有影响力和卓越的女性作家之一。她的作品《紫色》主要反映了黑人女性如何从甘愿受压迫到觉醒再到反抗争取自由的过程。本文通过对《紫色》中出现的主要黑人文化意象进行分析和解读，从而探讨黑人特有的文化在帮助美国黑人女性重新构建自我身份过程中所发挥的作用。这些特有的黑人文化意象是这些为平等和尊严奋斗黑人女性们的思想动力和精神支柱。《紫色》中的文化意象是黑人女性创造力和智慧的体现，是黑人女性能决心反抗压迫、反抗歧视、反抗不平等的根源因素，黑人女性从她们的文化意象中找回了自信和自我。黑人女性是她们传统文化的保护者也是继承者，正是这些文化意象使她们在思想上开始变的独立自主起来，重新定位了自我价值，从而成功地塑造了自己新的自我身份，有了独立的经济来源和受人尊重的社会地位。

[关键字] 双重压迫；《紫色》；重建；意象；自我身份

Abstract: 

Alice Walk is one of the most prominent and influential black female writers, whose famous novel—The Color Purple has attracted great attention in the world. The novel not only shows the way in which the black females break away from double oppressions and reconstruct their identities, but also covers many traditional African cultural images, such as quilt-making, blues, African architecture, religious belief and clothing customs. From the viewpoint of the images in the novel, the paper makes a tentative study on how the black females redefine their own values and rebuild their self-confidence. In The Color Purple, the cultural images are the black women’s spiritual world, they love and worship their cultural world. It is the cultural images that arouse the black females’ self-consciousness, give them confidence and courage to get free from the double discriminations. It is the cultural images that bring the black females together, giving them the chance to understand and encourage each other, strengthen sisterhood among them. The unique cultural image gives the black females inspiration and creativity to rebuild their new lives, makes them complete the magnificent transformation from being numb and weak to being thoughtful and tough, and helps them to realize their dreams. The black females’ success proves that the cultural images are the major motivation on the way to reconstructing their self-identities.

Key Words:  double oppressions; The Color Purple; reconstruction; images; self-identities