摘 要
作为美国当代最具作用力的黑人女作家之一，艾丽斯•沃克致力于为美国黑人女性独立事业而奋斗，她针对黑人妇女这一既遭受种族压迫又遭遇性别歧视的群体提出的“妇女主义”一词，为广大的黑人妇女指出了斗争路线。《紫颜色》（1982）是艾丽斯•沃克的代表作，也是艾丽斯•沃克“妇女主义”思想最好的体现。本文通过对小说中女主人公西丽三十多年的人生历程的略论，以艾丽斯•沃克妇女主义中强调黑人女性通过树立新的自我来改变其社会地位与社会形象为引导，英语论文题目，探讨小说中女主人公西丽妇女主义思想的形成过程，探索艾丽斯•沃克“妇女主义”思想的内涵及其对美国黑人妇女解放事业的积极指导意义。
本文由四部分组成。第一部分恰当的介绍了艾丽斯•沃克本人和她的著作《紫颜色》。第二部分对西方学者、评论界以及中国学者、评论界对艾丽斯•沃克本人以及其著作的探讨做了一个概述。第三部分是本文的中心，共分为三部分，英语论文题目，由对西莉人生经历的略论开始讨论了妇女主义思想核心，即黑人女性的自立自强，在西莉身上的形成过程。最后一部分是结论部
分，作者将对本文所研讨的西丽的妇女主义思想由麻木到觉悟和奋起的形成过程以及艾丽斯•沃克对黑人女性解放事业的拥护和鼓励的态度作一个总结。
关键词：民权运动，种族压迫，性别歧视，妇女主义，解放事业
Abstract
As one of the most influential black female writer, Alice Walker devotes herself to the Civil Rights Movement and the American black women’s independence revolution. She created the word “Womanism”, which is for the American black women who suffer from both racial oppression and sexual discrimination, and figured out a way of defending for the massive black females. The Color Purple (1982) is Alice Walker’s masterpiece and it is also the best book about Womanism. This thesis make a research about the formation of Celie’s Womanism in The Color Purple through analyzing her more than thirty years life experience and studies the connotation of “Womanism” and its significance to the American black females’ liberation.
This essay is constructed with four parts. The first part of this essay will make an introduction to both Alice Walker and her book The Color Purple. The second part of this writing will be a literature review about the previous study of both western literature world and the Chinese scholars. The third part will stars from the analysis about Celie’s life process based on the core assertion of Alice Walker’s Womanism which is the black females’ self-reliance and it includes three parts in all, which refer to three periods of changing in Celie’s thirty years life experiences that was written in The Color Purple. In the end of writing, the author will give a conclusion about Alice Walker’s attitudes towards the black females and the formation of Celie’s Womanism through unconsciousness to awakening and fighting.
Key words: Civil Rights Movement, racial oppression, sexual discrimination, Womanism, liberation
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