浅议《紫色》中黑人女的觉醒与抗争英语专业Word文件下载.docx

1、 Black Womens Awakening and Resistance in The Color PurpleBy *Submitted to the Department of Foreign Languages of Shandong University of Political Science and Law in Partial Fulfillment to the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in EnglishUnder the Supervision of Professor *February, 201

2、2浅议紫色中的黑人女性的觉醒与抗争摘要：艾丽斯沃克是美国文学史上最著名的黑人女作家之一。她的代表作品紫色发表于1982年，一经出版便引起了评论界轰动，并获得普利策文学奖和美国国家图书奖。艾丽斯沃克深受女姓主义影响，并把争取种族平等、女性解放作为其毕生的事业，她的这种女姓主义思想在小说紫色中得以体现。小说紫色深刻分析了黑人女性所遭受的来自种族主义和性别主义的双重压迫，揭示了阻碍黑人女性觉醒与获得解放的因素，呼唤黑人女性自我意识的觉醒，把争取女性平等的斗争扩大到黑人群体中。小说揭露了黑人男性和白人对黑人女性的歧视和压迫，并展现了黑人女性团结一致摆脱压迫，重建黑人男性和女性之间的和谐关系。本文旨在阐

3、述紫色中黑人女性的觉醒与抗争以及她们觉醒抗争的原因。全文共分为四章。第一章为引言，主要介绍艾丽斯沃克的生平和她最著名的小说紫色；第二章主要阐述黑人女性所遭受的双重压迫黑人男性的性别歧视和压迫以及白人的种族歧视和压迫；第三章分为两部分介绍紫色中黑人女性的觉醒与解放：第一部分阐述促使黑人女性觉醒与抗争的原因，第二部分强调黑人女性从逆来顺受到觉醒抗争的转变过程，黑人女性团结一致摆脱压迫，获得独立，重新构建了男女之间的和谐关系；第四章是结论，对全文进行总结并重申重要观点。关键词：沃克，紫色，黑人女性，觉醒，抗争Black Womens Awakening and Resistance in The C

4、olor PurpleAbstract: Alice Walker is one of the most outstanding black women writers in American Literature. The Color Purple, published in 1982, is considered as her representative work. The novel has aroused great reverberation since its publication and also makes Alice Walker win the Pulitzer Pri

5、ze and the National Book Award. Greatly influenced by feminism, Alice Walker regarded achieving racial equality and women liberation as her life career, which was greatly reflected in the novel The Color Purple. The novel deeply analyzed the double oppression of black women, which were racism and se

6、xism and revealed the barriers of black women awakening and liberation. It encouraged black women to wake up and fight for selfhood. It expanded the struggle for the black womens equal rights. The novel exposed the black men and the white peoples oppression and discrimination to black women. This th

7、esis will analyze how the black women characters in The Color Purple seek self-identity under the two oppressions from and the reason of their awakening. The specific contents will be divided into four chapters. Chapter one is the introduction part, which introduces the basic information about Alice

8、 Walker and her most famous novel The Color Purple. Chapter two focuses on the double oppression that the black women suffer, which are the sexual discrimination and oppression from the black men and the racial discrimination and oppression from the white people. Chapter three emphasizes the awakeni

9、ng and liberation of black women from two different aspects. The first aspect analyzes the factors which contribute to the awakening and resistance of the black women in The Color Purple; the second part introduces black womens transformation from submission to rebellion. Chapter four is the conclus

10、ion part which delivers a summary and restates the theme of this thesis.Key Words: Alice Walker, The Color Purple, black women, awakening, resistanceContentChapter One Introduction1.1 Basic Information about Alice Walker Alice Walker （1944- ） is one of the most influential African-American black wom

11、en writers in American literature. She was born on February 9, 1944 and was the eighth and the last child of a sharecropper family in a small rural town in Eatonton, Georgia. When she was eight, her brother accidently shot her in the eye and then she became blind in her right eye, which also made he

12、r bore an ugly scar. Thinking herself to be ugly, she became depressed, solitary and just hid herself in a room all the time. However, this period provided her with a good chance to read a lot of books, which played a very important role in her later writing career. She attended Spellman college fro

13、m 1961 to 1963 and then transferred to Sarah Lawrence college, earned a B.A in 1965. During her college life, she was very interested in the U.S Civil Rights Movement and continued the activism after graduation, which influenced her writing of her novels. Another movement that deeply affected her wa

14、s the Womens Liberation Movement, which made Alice Walker realized the necessity of feminism and the necessity for black women to rebel and win freedom under the double oppression of society and family. Greatly affected by feminism, Alice Walker regarded striving for racial equality and women libera

15、tion as her life career. Alice Walker is a prolific writer whose work includes poetry, novels, short stories, essays and criticism. Her works like 1965-To Hell with Dying （short stories）, 1973-In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women （a collection of short stories）, 1976-Meridian （novel）, 1982-The Color Purple （novel）, 1985-Horse Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful （poetry），and so on. Among all her works, the novel The Color Purple is the most famous one, which made Walker become the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and it was also awarded the American Book Awa