摘要
艾丽丝·沃克是当代美国著名的黑人女作家和"黑人妇女写作文艺复兴运动的灵魂人物",她的前期长篇小说根植于南方黑人社区生活,尤其关注黑人妇女的生存状态,关注她们的苦难和抗争。针对黑人妇女受种族主义和性别主义的双重煎熬处于分裂精神状态的情势,沃克孜孜以求"完整的生存",并提出了独创性的"妇女主义"理论。以实现包括男人和女人在内的全人类的生存与完整。因此,沃克的前期长篇小说成为当代美国黑人女性文学的光辉典范,其志在重塑黑人主体人格、以文学探索生存意义的执著写作正在改变美国黑人文学的边缘地位,引领着黑人种族文化步入开放的未来。
Alice Walker is a famous modern Aframerican writer and the soul of female Aframerican writing, as well as writing renaissance. Early saga novels of hers were based on the community life of Southern Negroes,and paid special attention to the living condition of the female Aframerican,focusing on their hardship and struggle.Because they suffered from the racialism and gender discrimination,she had been struggling for the 'surviral whole' and proposed the original 'womanism' principle, to realize the wholeness and existence of humanity. As a result, aiming to reshaping the personality of Negroes,early saga novels of Walker's set a very good example of female Aframerican literature and led their culture to the open future.lt changed the marginal status of Aframerican literature to explore the meaning of life by the literature.
