Alice Walker’s Ideal Society For The Black Women

Few twentieth-century Aro-American female writers left their imprint in the literary field and several generations of readers as Alice Walker.She is considered as a talented,versatile and pioneering Afro-American writer and activist.Her most famous novel,The Color Purple,not only was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983,but also got worldwide success.Meanwhile,she adopts a term "womanism" which not only provides a way for black women to fight against men,but also creates an ideal world to the whole black community.Walker’s womanism ideology is thoroughly reflected in her bestseller The Color Purple as well as her first novel The Third Life of Grange Copeland.There are numerous researches and theses on Walker and her works.But most of them either center on colored women like their searching for their black identity under the double oppression,significance of sisterhood and lesbian relationship or pay great emphasis on black men like their particular predicament and dynamic transformation.It is necessary to interpret Walker’s womanism’s deep meaning from both black female and male characters’ aspects.This thesis which is based on the perspective of womianism tends to make a more comprehensive study of her these two works and explore Walker’s world with equality,harmoniousness and love for black people or any oppressed group in the world.To begin with,the marginalized social status of black female characters is described in detail and the root of their dual oppression is deeply probed from the social and domestic aspects.Moreover,the author analyzes black women’s revolt against the racial and sexual oppression in both two works.This thesis tends to reinforce the necessity and significance of sisterhood and their self-awaking awareness in the process of seeking their self-identities.Then,the thesis’s author analyzes the plight of black males and traces their distorted masculinity to its origin.It is easy to realize that the detrimental impact that white racism and male chauvinism exert on black men and the whole black community.Furthermore,black men’s self-inspection and self-change are emphasizedin the process of seeking their manhood and humanity.This thesis concentrates on black women’s freedom and black men’s transformation,which contribute to a complicated and profound interpretation of the essence of womanism that realize the survival and the wholeness of entire people.This thesis of black women’s struggle against the dual oppression shows a road for all third world women to fight against their low social status and also inspires the oppressed groups to pursue their well-being.