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1、FromDegradationtoDignity:AnalysisofCelieinTheColorPurple1.IntroductionTheColorPurple(1982),writtenbythefamousAfro-AmericanfemalewriterAliceWalker(1944-),wonthePulitzerPrizeforfictionin1983.SheisthefirstAfro-Americanwomanwhowinsthisaward.Thenovelwasadaptedforfilmin1984bySpielbergandthisadaptati
2、onbroughtheraworldwidefameandpopularity.AliceWalkerwasbornonFebruary9,1944inthesmallruraltownofEatonton,Georgia.ShewastheeighthandlastchildofWillieLeeWalkerandMinnieTallulahGrant,twosharecroppers.Herparents’experienceswiththeoppressivesharecroppingsystemandtheracismoftheAmericanSouthhaddeeplyi
3、nfluencedherlife.Violentracismandfamilypovertyhadleftapermanentimpressiononherwriting.In1965,WalkerwasinvolvedinCivilRightsMovementfollowinghergraduation,whichinfluencedherwritingofhernovels,suchasTheThirdLifeofGrangeCopeland(1970),Meridian(1976)andTheColorPurple.SheevenmarriedaJewishCivilRigh
4、tslawyer,MelLeventhal.AnothermovementthatinfluencedherdeeplywastheWomen’sLiberationMovementwhichsheregardedaswhitewomen’smovement.Shebecameinterestedintheconditionsofblackwomenwhosufferedthedoubleoppression---racismandsexism.Thelattercamefromwhitemen,evenfromblackmen.Sherealizedthenecessityfor
5、themtoachievefreedom.SotheconcernofblackwomenandtheimpactofracismandsexismonthembecamethemajorthemesofWalker’snovels.Sheendeavoredtoexploreanidealwayforblackwomentofightagainstracialandsexualdiscriminationandtoestablishtheiridentity.Asaresult,shewroteher第23页共23页famousnovelTheColorPurple,whiche
6、xposedblackmen’ssexualabuseandprejudiceagainstfemaleblacks.ItisthestoryofCelie,apoorSouthernblackwomanwhostrugglestoescapethedegradationofthetreatmentbymen.ManypeopleabroadareinterestedinAliceWalkerandhernovelTheColorPurple.MelWatkinsregardsitas“strikingandconsummatelywell-written.”(7)DinitiaS
7、mithsuggeststhatthenovelmarksamajoradvanceforWalker’sart:“becausethebookissuperb,itplacesherinthecompanyofFaulkner,fromwhomsheappearstohavelearnedagreatdeal:theuseofashiftingfirstpersonnarrator,forinstance,andthepresentationofacomplexst
