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1、II.LiteratureReviewA.AbriefintroductionoftheauthorandthebookAliceWalkerisoneofthemostprolificandworldrewardingAfro-Americanwriters.Shehasaltogetherpublishedthreecollectionofshortstories,eightcollectionsofpoetryandeightnovels.Andsheismostfamousforhernovels.TheColorPurp
2、le,whichpublishedin1982,wontheAmericanBookAwardandthePulizterPrize,thusshebecamethefirstAfricanAmericanfemalewritertowinthePulizterPrize.InTheColorPurple,AliceWalkerdemonstratestheblackwomen'slivingconditionsunderthedoubleoppressionsofbothraceandgender.Shegivesaconcre
3、tedescriptionofthegrowingprogressoftheprotagonist,Celie—fromhernumbnesstoawakening.Walkershowsfemalecharacter'spersonalityandpursuitofself-identityinstrugglingwithmenandthewholesociety.B.MajorperspectivesoftheacademicstudiesonTheColorPurpleSincethepublicationofTheColo
4、rPurplein1982,ithasreceivedmanycriticisminAmericaandtheoutsideworldaswell.Forexample,inTheNation,DinitiaSmithobserved,"Walkerhasnotturnedherbackonthesouthernfictionaltradition.Shehasabsorbeditandmadeitherown.Byinfusingtheblackexperienceintothesouthnovel,sheenrichedbot
5、hitandus"(Smith,181).Therearealsoenormousandvariousacademicstudiesonthisbook.Herearesomegeneralperspectives.1.AliceWalker'sWomanismThetermwomanistfirstappearedinAliceWalker'sInSearchofOurMother'sGardens,whichisusedtodistinguishblackfeminismfromthewhitefeminism.Sherley
6、Williamsoncereferredthatincontrasttofeminism,thewomanisminquirysuggeststhatitcantalkbothproductivelyandeffectivelyaboutmen.Walkergivesacleardefinitionofwhatiswomanism.Shewrites,"awomanistisablackfeministorfeministofcolor.Usuallyreferringtooutrageous,audacious,courageo
7、usorwillingfulbehavior.Awomanwholovesotherwomen,sexuallyand/ornonsexually...Womanismistofeministaspurpletolavender"(Walker,15).Womanismprovidesanewperspectiveofblackwomen'sdoubleoppressionunderbothraceandgenderandasolutionhowtogetridofofwomen'soppressiontogainself-ide
8、ntity.Thetheoryofwomanismiscontributedtothesurvivalandwholesomeofwomen,menandthewholehumanbeings.Inthenovel,TheColorPurple,C
