【正文】 Alice Walker specially preferred southern literature. As a black woman writer, Alice Walker was actively engaged in the women39。s movement and became a prominent feminist. Although she was outraged at the injustice for the black woman, she explored shining path unceasingly and helped the other women to loose the oppressions. Walker insisted that black women fight for equality between men and women, the struggle against racial and economic oppression tightly related. She abandoned feminism and replaced it with womanism which is defined as the person who devoted his life to the realization of all people, including men and women, survival and perfectionism. Alice Walker, the concept of women39。s liberation is not narrow. She recognized that a black woman was not only the black, but also a woman, a human being. Women39。s liberation means the emancipation of men, even the liberation of all mankind. These viewpoints were revealed in The Color Purple to the greatest extent. In the novel, Walker, with the most realistic approach, described all unfortunates of the black women in male chauvinism, reflecting the selfconsciousness of female and the process of improvement of their selfworth. The heroine Celie whom Walker put her heart and soul into shaped, with the desire for life and the pursuit of happiness, became the incarnation of a black woman of a new generational. The Color Purple injects fresh vigor into the development of black women39。s literature and demonstrates College of Foreign Languages, Hebei United University 2 the breakthrough of the black literary creation. Introduction of Alice Walker Alice Walker was the eighth and last child of Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Tallulah Grant, two sharecroppers. In the summer of 1952 Walker was blinded in her right eye by a BB gun pellet and has remained facially disfigured. Despite her partial loss of eyesight, Walker was a diligent student, finishing her classes with top grades. During a trip to Africa before her graduation from college, she discovered her accidental pregnancy and then had an abortion secretly, this sad experience made her want to mit suicide at a time. Alice Walker is active in political movements。 she participated in the Civil Rights Movement when she was a student in Spellman College in Atlanta. She wrote articles, went to speeches, and even marched on Washington to listen to Martin Luther King’s famous speech, I Have a Dream, with thousands of black people. After the graduation with her B． A． Degree from Sarah Lawrence, Walker found a job in Jackson, Mississippi, and accepted a position with the Legal Defense Fund for the Advancement of Colored People. With the assistance of the activist and lawyer Marian Wright Edelman, Walker did many good deeds for the black. Walker also taught African American women at some famous universities, such as Wellesley, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley, and supported antinuclear and environmental causes. During the late sixties and early seventies she published her first novel, The Third Life of Gee Copeland (1970)。 her next novel, Meridian (1976), a tale with the background of the Civil Rights, which is generally regarded as one of the best novels during that time. The Temple of My Familiar (1989) is an ambitious novel recording 500,000 years of human history. In Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) the male characters contradict their stereotypical roles。 they are the cure to Tasha’s happiness. Walker’s latest novel, By the Light of My Father’s Smile (1998), explores the richness and coherence of the alternative cultural experience of sexuality as a celebration of life, as Walker says that it is the triumphant heart, not the conquered heart, that fives and love are both timeless and beyond time. She had also written three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, six volumes of poetry and several children’s books. Implied Meaning of Purple Purple is regarded as one kind of noble color that the king dresses, symbolizing the sovereignty and honor. Alice Walker borrows purple as the book title, raising Chapter 1 Introduction 3 kneeling black women up to the level of royalty, and giving them original dignity and social position. In the novel, the author expresses her intention through multiple use of purple. When Celie just arrives at Albert’s family, Albert, who Celie’s husband but she doesnot dare to call his name, plies to buy clothes for her. At that time she has not seen Shug, but she knows Mr. Albert not only likes, but also respects her. Therefore, what Celie first thinks is the purple clothe that Shug liked. This indicated that she imagines obtaining respect and affection of husband like Shug. She looks everywhere of the entire store for purple clothes in vain attempt. This indicated that opportunity not yet mature. She is unable to obtain the dignity. However, the idea that Celie wants to wear the purple clothes reflects her desire to live a happy life. It is this desire that makes her see her own oppressions, and gradually develop to finally recognize the value of her own existence. But at the end of the novel, after Celie’s selfconsciousness, she decorates her room with purple color, which shows her desire for a happy life, symbolizing the change of her social position as slave and the beginning of her beautiful pleted life. Near the end of the novel, Albert handcarved a purple frog for Celie, symbolizing that he recognizes Celie’s dignity and her right of pursuing happiness. This article concentrates on Celie’s selfconsciousness with the background of other black women supporting or influencing her. Walker takes Celie as a representative of black women, focusing on how Celie bees selfconscious with the help of other black women.College of F