妇女主义思想的发展——浅析沃克的小说《我知交的神殿》

An Evolution of Walker's Womanist——Andlysis of 《the Temple of My Familiar》

美国当代黑人女作家艾利斯.沃克(Alice Walker)的第四部小说《我知交的神殿》是她早期小说逻辑上的延伸。就探讨的主题而言,是她所倡导的妇女主义思想的进一步发展。当她笔下的妇女摆脱了种种压迫,获得解放后,她又赋予笔下的人物以新的追求。在这部小说中,沃克所要探索的人类的真正的解放之路,以及新时代下的妇女主义得到了进一步发展。

This paper deals with the logical extension of Alice Walker＇s Womanist ideology in her fourm novel, The Temple of My Familiar. Once Walker has shown her women capable of breaking the bonds of oppression and defining themselves as whole persons, she make a further step into the goddesses＇ construction, which constitutes part of womankind＇ s distant past. And it is a search for the inner spiritual truth of contemporary black women in a new matriarchal religion. Furthermore in exploring the fanciful history of relationships between the two sexes, Walker has redefined the relationship between men and women by putting more emphasis on individual freedom as well as on unity between the two sexes. Finally in discovery of the graceful history of women, she verifies the divinity in all human and nonhuman elements of the universe and has rediscovered and reestablished a harmonious relationship between （wo）men and non- human elements in the universe.