An Investigation Of Cultural-psychology Of Alice Walker's Creation

Alice Walker is an outstanding black woman writer of contemporary American realism. She established"womanism"on which she based her discussion of the issue of women and black women, especially the racial discrimination which the black American suffers. Expresses her"womanism"with the literature, infiltrates her"womanism"into the creation consciousness, build her own style and aesthetic implication. Her works covers broad topics, from early on she concerned about the survival of the race, then into concerning the living environment of the whole of mankind. Her"womanism"plays the positive role to black women's movement and critical theory of the black feminism in the 1980s. We can find much influence of her"womanism"in her literature creation, which will build further understanding of her"womanism"too.A variety of factors which effect Alice Walker's creation are going to be approached from different angles in the thesis.Thesis presented is consisted of five parts:The introduction carries Alice Walker's unique experience and the overview of her main novels. The Color Purple which established her reputation has profoundly exposed the black man's discrimination against black woman and persecution, traced the existence of this phenomenon in history, put forward a solution. The novel became the woman literature course in the American University when it is published. It was adapted to the screen. And she got three prizes, the National Book Award, the National Association of Review Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, which are on behalf of the highest honors of the Pulitzer Prize, American Literary Award. At the same time, investigations domestic and foreign to Alice Walker's creation include the success and deficiencies.Some multi-relation between Alice Walker's creation and the era's social, political movements, black culture and traditions even some black writers are manifested in Chapter I. Alice Walker benefit from Langston Hughes and Zola in the writing field of vision and methods. Through the exploring of the culture and tradition of black people, some black women's activities of daily living stimulated her creative inspiration, enriched her expression ways, too.Chapter II contains the discussion of the relation between Alice Walker's character and creativity. The special personal background and life experience made her self-esteem and sensitive. Love, marriage and sex theme frequently appears in her work. Particularly some depictions of homosexuality, of the course of sex and of innermost being indicated her probing into the sexual and political freedom and lesbian. She hoped that the realization of different ethnic and cultural pluralism and coexistence, and that people could understand each other eventually.Chapter III aims on probing into Alice Walker's unconsciousness and its manifestations in her works. As special black history and traditional culture, black people lost themselves in the conflict between the African-American cultural and white cultural values. I am to reveal the Electra complex in Alice Walker subconscious through her works, especially in some descriptions of men. Her cultural Psychology made her pay attention to how black people can access to the right equal to white people, to the power relation of man and woman in black people themselves, and try to find some way to avoid this relation unequal. Conclusion: Alice Walker is a characteristic writer. Her various personal experiences, cultural-psychology; gender, unconsciousness may have significant influence in her works which can be traced clearly. The idiosyncrasy of her personality such as self-respect, sensitivity and militant, all form her works. To some extant, it is all of the above that builds the soul of her creation.