Abstract

The Color Purple, written by Alice walker, is a novel about black women’s self-consciousness, revealing the unfair treatment like racial discrimination and gender discrimination the black women encounter in their life. It describes the black women’s political and living conditions under both racial and sexual oppression, their fighting against the double oppression and searching for the integrity of themselves and their lives. Out of sympathy, understanding and support for her fellow sisters’ situation and their fates, Alice walker successfully created several typical womanist images in the novel, like Shug, Sofia and Celie, and described the growth of them from being traditional to being independent. Through analyzing the womanist images of Shug, Celie and Sofia, this thesis intends to discover Walker’s womanism which is against sexual discrimination and advocates black women’s pursuing freedom and independence.

Key words: Alice walker; black woman; womanism

摘 要

艾丽斯·沃克的《紫色》是典型的关于黑人女性意识的小说，揭露了黑人女性在生活中所遭受的不平等待遇，例如种族歧视和性别歧视。这篇小说主要描述了在性别和种族的双重压迫下黑人女性生存的政治环境和生活状态，以及她们反抗双重压迫不断完善自我、追求美好生活。出于对自己同胞姐妹们处境的同情、理解、支持和热爱以及对于她们命运的关心，艾丽斯·沃克在小说中成功塑造了莎格，索菲亚和西丽等几个典型的由传统走向独立的黑人妇女形象。本文通过剖析莎格，索菲亚和西丽这三位小说女主人公殊途同归的妇女形象，浅析作者意图阐述的反对性别歧视，追求自由独立博爱的妇女主义概念。

关键词：艾丽斯·沃克；黑人女性；妇女主义