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II.LiteratureReviewA.AbriefintroductionoftheauthorandthebookAliceWalkerisoneofthemostprolificandworldrewardingAfro-Americanwriters.Shehasaltogetherpublishedthreecollectionofshortstories,eightcollectionsofpoetryandeightnovels.Andsheismostfamousforhernovels.TheColorPurple,whichpublishedin1982,wontheAmericanBookAwardandthePulizterPrize,thusshebecamethefirstAfricanAmericanfemalewritertowinthePulizterPrize.InTheColorPurple,AliceWalkerdemonstratestheblackwomen'slivingconditionsunderthedoubleoppressionsofbothraceandgender.Shegivesaconcretedescriptionofthegrowingprogressoftheprotagonist,Celie—fromhernumbnesstoawakening.Walkershowsfemalecharacter'spersonalityandpursuitofself-identityinstrugglingwithmenandthewholesociety.B.MajorperspectivesoftheacademicstudiesonTheColorPurpleSincethepublicationofTheColorPurplein1982,ithasreceivedmanycriticisminAmericaandtheoutsideworldaswell.Forexample,inTheNation,DinitiaSmithobserved,"Walkerhasnotturnedherbackonthesouthernfictionaltradition.Shehasabsorbeditandmadeitherown.Byinfusingtheblackexperienceintothesouthnovel,sheenrichedbothitandus"(Smith,181.Therearealsoenormousandvariousacademicstudiesonthisbook.Herearesome
generalperspectives.1.AliceWalker'sWomanismThetermwomanistfirstappearedinAliceWalker'sInSearchofOurMother'sGardens,whichisusedtodistinguishblackfeminismfromthewhitefeminism.SherleyWilliamsoncereferredthatincontrasttofeminism,thewomanisminquirysuggeststhatitcantalkbothproductivelyandeffectivelyaboutmen.Walkergivesacleardefinitionofwhatiswomanism.Shewrites,"awomanistisablackfeministorfeministofcolor.Usuallyreferringtooutrageous,audacious,courageousorwillingfulbehavior.Awomanwholovesotherwomen,sexuallyand/ornonsexually...Womanismistofeministaspurpletolavender"(Walker,15.Womanismprovidesanewperspectiveofblackwomen'sdoubleoppressionunderbothraceandgenderandasolutionhowtogetridofofwomen'soppressiontogainself-identity.Thetheoryofwomanismiscontributedtothesurvivalandwholesomeofwomen,menandthewholehumanbeings.Inthenovel,TheColorPurple,Celiefinallybecamereconciledwithherhusbandandlivedinaharmoniousandhappynewworld,whichfurtherillustratesWalker'sgloriousidealofdemolishingthegapexistedbetweenmenandwomenandstrugglingagainstprejudicesinaconcertedeffort.However,comparedtoforeignscholars,ChinesecriticswererelativelyslowinresponsetoAliceWalker'sworks.TheirattentionstoTheColorPurplefocusonfeministapproach,andfewhasrealizedthedifferencebetweenfeminismandtheterm"womanism"putforwardbyAliceWalker(Tang,121.

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