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1、论文（设计）研究目标及主要任务

本论文的研究目标是论述《紫色》中西丽自我意识的觉醒。其主要任务是通过分析黑人女性所遭受的双重，西丽自我意识觉醒的过程以及自我价值的实现。

2、论文（设计）的主要内容

本论文分为三章，第一章介绍黑人女性所遭受的双重压迫，第二章阐述女主角追求自我价值的历程，第三章探讨西丽自我价值的实现。

3、论文（设计）的基础条件及研究路线

本论文的基础条件是不同的文学家及女性主义学者对《紫色》的研究结果。

研究路线是分别阐述黑人女性所遭受的双重和女主角自我意识觉醒的过程以及自我价值的实现。

4、主要参考文献

Walker, A. 1983. The Color Purple. London: Woman’s Press.

Woolf, V. 1985. A Room of One’s Own. London: Granada Press

Bloom, Harold. 1989.Alice Walker. New York: Chelsea House Publisher

艾丽丝·沃克著, 杨敬仁译.1988.《紫色》.北京:十月文艺出版社.

刘源.2006.《紫色》与艾丽斯·沃克的妇女主义. 世纪桥

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课题论证：从黑人女性所遭受的双重压迫和女主角追求自我价值的历程及自我价值的实现论证西丽自我意识的觉醒。

方案设计：第一章介绍黑人女性所遭受的双重压迫，

第二章阐述女主角追求自我价值的历程，

第三章探讨西丽自我价值的实现。

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论文内容摘要

艾丽斯·沃克是美国文学史上最著名的黑人女作家之一。她的代表作品《紫色》发表于1982年，一经出版便引起了评论界轰动，并获得普利策文学奖和美国国家图书奖。艾丽斯沃克深受女姓主义影响，并把争取种族平等、女性解放作为其毕生的事业，她的这种女姓主义思想在小说《紫色》中得以体现。小说《紫色》深刻分析了黑人女性所遭受的来自种族主义和性别主义的双重压迫，揭示了阻碍黑人女性觉醒与获得解放的因素，呼唤黑人女性自我意识的觉醒，把争取女性平等的斗争扩大到黑人群体中。小说揭露了黑人男性和白人对黑人女性的歧视和压迫，并展现了黑人女性团结一致摆脱压迫，重建黑人男性和女性之间的和谐关系。

本文旨在阐述《紫色》中女主角西丽自我意识的觉醒。全文共分为三章。第一章主要阐述黑人女性所遭受的双重压迫—黑人男性的性别歧视和压迫以及白人的种族歧视和压迫；第二章介绍了女主角追求自我价值的历程。从服从，抗争到和解以及在追求自我价值过程中所得到的女性朋友的帮助。第三章阐述了西丽自我价值的实现。包括经济的独立以及精神家园的重建。

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Literature Review

Alice Walker is one of the most outstanding black female writers in the American literature history. Her works most vividly reflects love and hate, happiness and sadness, fantasy and disappointment of black women. The Color Purple is her masterpiece, which created a fresh black female image by narrating black women’s suffering. Critics and linguists in the world gave a lot of attention to the success of The Color Purple.

Foreign scholars mainly concentrated on review of The Color Purple, which can be divided into several aspects.

Firstly, some scholars discussed the implied meaning of the purple in The Color Purple. For example, in America, Teresa Tavormina(1986)made analysis of the parallels between clothing and the perception of the characters, Celie cannot get her preferable clothes of purple color, indicating that she has been deprived of freedom, The Color Purple also implies that she has been beaten, for the purple is also the color of scars; on the contrary, the symbols of Shug’s fur clothing gives us the impression that Shug is much more powerful, since fur is the sign of animal.

Secondly, some scholars concentrated the heroine Celie in The Color Purpl e. For example, Linda Abbaandonato(1991), she talks about the wakeness of the identity of the black women in the novel, she takes Ceile as the typical one.

In addition, there are some scholars to analyze the status of the black in the society from racial angle. For example, Linda Selzer(1995)discusses the habits and traditions between the race and domesticity of American family, especially in the black people’s family. Many comments in abroad also are from womanism perspective. For example, Susan Willis(1987)analyzed the theme of The Color Purple from the perspective of the black feminism.According to her thesis, The Color Purple is coincident with the ideology of black feminism. The way to save black women from suffering is obviously the main principles of black feminism. Foreign scholars made a lot of study of The Color Purple itself, and at the same time, some scholars

also pay attention to the comparative study of The Color Purple. It is be pointed out that all of the women only realize themselves is a great unique individual, and then they can win true spiritual existence.

In conclusion, foreign scholars have quite mature research on The Color Purple, which can be good reference for this paper.

In Chinese academic field, researches on The Color Purple mainly concentrate in two forms of critics and collected paper. Many critics studied it from the perspective of the difference. Some studied the protagonist’s awakening from the perspective of black feminist, for example, Huang L.N.(2002)pointed out that in spite of the limitation in the novel, Walker reveals us a vivid depiction of the Afro-American family life, especially the black women’s sufferings, struggles and final triumphs. The most important one is her focus on the internal “black-on-black” oppression and black women’s fight for their own rights. In the same year, Zhang L.J.(2002）studied Alice Walker’s other three novels to interpret the awakening of black women. He pointed out that the process of black women awakening may reflect changes of American black women’s social status.

Some scholars also explored the deconstructionism contained in the novel, for example, Liu Yuan(2007)thought that Alice walker not only highly praised the courage and strength represented by black women in the face of double oppression. And they gave black men empathy ability,and promoted their growth. He also thought that they broke and rewrote patriarchal social form, to some extent.

There are comments on the religious thought in The Color Purple in academia. For example, Zhang H.M.(2003)pointed out that the black women’s betrayal of God marks self-consciousness awakening of them, and materialization of God image indicates mature self-awareness and religious faith of the protagonist.

In domestic researches on The Color Purple, Liu X.L.(2009)analyzed the growth course of Celie, and concluded that womanism ideas contains ego lost, self-consciousness awakening. Gao J.C.analyzed womanism in The Color Purple. He thought that Walker’s womanism surpasses gender discrimination and racism, and

focuses on the integrity of the whole human society, which is actually the core walker’s womanism, and the greatest contribution to traditional feminism.

Relevant academic achievements by domestic scholars on The Color Purple are relatively still rare, and inferior to the international level. Researches of Chinese scholars mainly focus on some certain characteristics, and lack of comprehensive and systematic evaluation. In previous studies, it is obvious that the awakening of the self-value is an important aspect of The Color Purple, and runs through the whole story. This thesis focus on the awakening of the self-value of Celie through the illustration of the double oppression upon the black women and the awakening process of Celie as well as the realization of the self-value and makes the final conclusion that black women can get real revival and achieve harmonious coexistence with men by self-improvement,s elf-reliance, and self-struggle on the direction of womanism.

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Awakening of the self-value

An Analysis of Celie in the color purple

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Abstract

Alice Walker is one of the most outstanding black women writers in American Literature. The color purple which was published in 1982, is considered as her representative work. The novel has aroused great reverberation since its publication and also makes Alice Walker win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Greatly influenced by feminism, Alice Walker regards achieving racial equality and women’s liberation as her life career, which was greatly reflected in the novel The Color Purple. The novel deeply analyses the double oppression of black women, which were racism and sexism and revealed the barriers of black women awakening and liberation. It encourages black women to wake up and fight for selfhood. It expanded the struggle for women’s equal rights to the group of black people. The novel exposes the black men and the white people’s oppression and discrimination to black women and shows the black women’s unity to get rid of the oppression and rebuild the harmonious relationship between black men and women.

This thesis will illustrate the awakening of the self-value of Celie and is divided into three chapters. Chapter one focuses on the double oppression that the black women suffer, which are the sexual discrimination and oppression from the black men and the racial discrimination and oppression from the white people.Chapter two emphasizes the process of Celie’s pursuit of self-value,from compliance to fight and at last reaching a reconciliation and the help Celie got from her sisters.Chapter three realization of self-value including the economic independence and the rebuilding of spiritual home.

Key words: The Color Purple self-value oppression awakening resistance

摘要

艾丽斯·沃克是美国文学史上最著名的黑人女作家之一。她的代表作品《紫色》发表于1982年，一经出版便引起了评论界轰动，并获得普利策文学奖和美国国家图书奖。艾丽斯沃克深受女姓主义影响，并把争取种族平等、女性解放作为其毕生的事业，她的这种女姓主义思想在小说《紫色》中得以体现。小说《紫色》深刻分析了黑人女性所遭受的来自种族主义和性别主义的双重压迫，揭示了阻碍黑人女性觉醒与获得解放的因素，呼唤黑人女性自我意识的觉醒，把争取女性平等的斗争扩大到黑人群体中。小说揭露了黑人男性和白人对黑人女性的歧视和压迫，并展现了黑人女性团结一致摆脱压迫，重建黑人男性和女性之间的和谐关系。

本文旨在阐述《紫色》中女主角西丽自我意识的觉醒。全文共分为三章。第一章主要阐述黑人女性所遭受的双重压迫—黑人男性的性别歧视和压迫以及白人的种族歧视和压迫；第二章介绍了女主角追求自我价值的历程。从服从，抗争到和解以及在追求自我价值过程中所得到的女性朋友的帮助。第三章阐述了西丽自我价值的实现。包括经济的独立以及精神家园的重建。

关键词：《紫色》自我意识压迫觉醒抗争

Table of Contents

Introduction (1)

Chapter I Double Oppression Upon the Black Women (4)

A Sexual oppression from the Black Men (4)

B Racial oppression from the Black Men (6)

Chapter II Process of Celie’s pursui t of self-value (8)

A Compliance (9)

B Fight (11)

C Reconciliation (13)

D Enlightenment from Nattie Sophia and Shug (14)

Chapter III Realization of Self-value (16)

A Economic independence (16)

B Rebuilding of spiritual home (17)

Conclusion (19)

Notes (20)

Bibliography (21)

Introduction

Alice Walker (1944- ) is one of the most influential African-American black women writers in American literature. She was born on February 9, 1944 and was the eighth and the last child of a sharecropper family in a small rural town in Eatonton, Georgia. When she was eight, her brother accidentally shot her in the eye and then she became blind in her right eye, which also made her bore an ugly scar. Thinking herself to be ugly, she became depressed, solitary and just hid herself in a room all the time. However, this period provided her with a good chance to read a lot of books, which played a very important role in her later writing career. After high school, Walker went to Spelman college in Atlanta on a full scholarship in 1961 and later transferred to Sarah Lawrence College near New York City, graduating in 1965. Walker became interested in the U.S. civil rights movement in part due to the influence of activist Howard Zinn, who was one of her professors at Spelman College. During her college years,she continued to participate in the activism. Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. when she was a student at Spelman College in Atlanta in the early 1960s. Walker credited King for her decision to return to the American South as an activist for the Civil Rights Movement.Walker returned to the South where she became involved with voter registration drives, campaigns for welfare rights, and children’s programs in Mississippi. Alice Walker regarded striving for racial equality and women liberation as her life career.

Alice Walker is a prolific writer whose works cover poetry, novels, short stories, essays and criticism. Her works include 1965—To Hell with Dying(short stories), 1973—In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (a collection of short stories), 1976—Meridian(novel), 1982—The Color Purple (novel), 1985—Horse Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (poetry) and so on. Among all her works, the novel The Color Purple is the most famous one, which made Walker become the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and it also gained the American Book Award in 1983 and National Critics Association Award.

The Color Purple is Alice Walker’s representative work that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. In 1985, the novel was made into a very popular movie by Steven Spielberg.

Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on female black life in the 1930s in the southern United States, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence.

The novel aroused great reverberation in the critical field, and created a lot of enlightening of its form, content and theme after its publication in 1982. The Color Purple tells the story of Celie, a poor, uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in rural Georgia, who is also the protagonist and narrator of the novel. Celie writes to God to tell about her life—her roles as daughter, wife, sister and mother, because she undergoes the double oppression since childhood. The novel is composed by 92 letters which include the letters Celie writes to God, the letters Celie writes to Nettie and the letters Nettie writes to Celie.

The novel tells a story of how the heroine develops from a meek, timid, and submissive black woman into an independent, confident and courageous woman. The story happened in the south of Georgia. Celie was violently raped by her stepfather Alfonso many times, but she dared not to say to anybody except God because her stepfather threatened her. Celie had two children but they were taken away immediately by Alfonso when they were born. Later Alfonso married her to Mr. Albert, who just considered Celie as a tool for sex and housework. As a result, Celie endured a hard and loveless life. Albert even had evil intentions on her sister, Nettie. So Nettie ran away and in the following thirsty years, Celie didn’t hear from her. Being ill, Shug Avery, an American-African singer also Albert’s lover, was brought back to his home. Under the good care of Celie, Shug gradually recovered and established a good friendship with Celie. Influenced by Shug, Celie became confident and also learned to appreciate herself. Later, with the help of Shug, she found that