解读《紫色》中西丽的女性意识成长

The growth of women conscience of Celie in The Color Purple

《紫色》是美国黑人作家艾丽斯.沃克创作的一部优秀的张扬黑人女权主义、构建黑人女性意识的代表作。小说描述了一位受旧思想束缚的黑人妇女的思想转变过程和女性意识的成长过程,充分展现了黑人女性深受性别和种族压迫的生活境遇,以及对这种双重压迫的反抗和对完善自我及美好生活的渴望与追求,反映了作者成熟的女性意识,展示了黑人女性从苦难的阴影中摆脱出来,自发团结在一起的共同奋斗历程,为黑人女性冲破婚姻、家庭的束缚,获得自由和追求自我解放指明了道路。

The Color Purple is a classical black women conscience novel.It describes black women's political condition and state of life under the racial and sexual oppression,their fighting against the double oppression and their searching for the integrity of self and life.This article attempts to trace the construction of female consciousness through an analysis of the growing experience of the heroine Celie.