论《紫颜色》的生态社会思想

Reading Humanist Concerns for Social Ecology in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

非裔美国女作家艾丽斯·沃克在小说《紫颜色》中,以人道主义的社会生态关怀为基点,揭露美国黑人尤其是黑人妇女所遭受的种族迫害、宗教欺骗及性别歧视和压迫。作品表达了作家反对种族迫害,主张种族间的和解;反对性别歧视和压迫,要求男女平等;反对宗教欺骗,提倡信仰自由的思想,从而以平等相待、相互关爱的全新社会关系重构人类新的共同体,走向一种生态社会。

Social ecology traces the essential roots of ecological crisis to multifarious social ills. As a vital part of the natural ecosystem, human community is greatly influenced by natural laws in its social structure and mode of social life. It is therefore important to remodel social ecology and redress the problematic relationships between human and nature. In her novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker expresses a humanist concern for social ecology by exposing the severe sufferings that racial discrimination, sexual oppression and religious deception have brought to American society. Suggesting reconciliation between the blacks and the whites, equality between male and female, and freedom of belief, the novel argues for an ethic of complementarity with which to restructure human community towards an ecological society.