From The "purple" Alice Walker's Womanism

Alice Walker is a famous modern Afro-American woman writer and the soul of female Afro-American 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, Afro-American, focusing on their hardship and struggle. Because they suffered from the racialism and gender discrimination, she had been struggling for the "survival whole" and proposed the original "womanism" principle, to realize the wholeness and existence of humanity. The Color Purple by her published in U. S. A. in 1982 and won the Pulitzer Prize the next year. The novel exposes that the black men force upon the black women the discrimination and persecute and expresses her womanism. It consists of three chapters. The main points are as follows: In the first chapter, it introduces the definition of Womanism and concludes its four aspects, based on which it demonstrates the reason why Walker can put forward Womanism and the answer is because of her identity as a marginal marginal person, that is, she is not cnly a black but a woman. In the second chapter it talks about how the novel The Color Purple interpret Womanism. and also explains how Celie, the heroine, overturns the phallus center and achieves self-realization. In the third chapter, it explains what is the positive meaning Womanism can bring for American society.