《紫色》:一部黑人女性的成长小说

Analysis of The Color Purple as an Initiation Story

采用题材批评法,运用成长小说理论分析美国著名黑人女作家艾丽斯.沃克的代表作《紫色》中所具有的成长小说特征,探索这部小说的成长主题,以期证明《紫色》是一部典型的成长小说,从而为读者欣赏这部小说提供一个新的角度,同时为国内外学者对成长小说的研究特别是黑人女性成长小说的研究起到抛砖引玉的作用。

Adopting genre criticism and employing initiation story theory,a specific anaysis is given to the initiation characteristics of Alice Walker＇s The Color Purple,with the exploration of the initiation theme of the novel,so as to prove that The Color Purple is a typical initiation story and provide a new perspective for readers to appreciate and study the novel,and at the same time do some contribution to the study of initiation story,especially the black female initiation story.