【正文】 e 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)。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。本文旨在通過對《紫色》的分析，激勵女性讀者，并讓男性讀者有一個更正確看待女性地位的態(tài)度。 與其他作家不同的是，愛麗絲?沃克不僅是看到了黑人女性的自我覺醒，還關(guān)注了女性之間的友情和黑人女性心中的信仰。《紫色》是她最著名的作品，自這部作品出版以來引起了很多評論家和讀者的關(guān)注，因為這部作品不僅涉及了種族歧視的問題，也提及了女權(quán)主義的問題。西麗的自我覺醒不僅激勵黑人女性，而且對當(dāng)今社會女性也有鼓勵的作用。 United States separation and discrimination were still strong in the South. Alice Walker was born in 1944, a poor black family in Geia Ethan Dayton, the south of US. The prejudice in society and the poverty of family made her deeply realize the distress of black people. Therefore, each of her literary work displays her struggles for the black, particularly for black women to pursue racial equality and selfindependence. Born in the south, naturally, Alice Walker specially preferred southern literature. As a black woman writer, Alice Walker was actively engaged in the 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。s status was gradually promoted, and the black women smashed double shackles. In the mid1950s to the mid1960s, African Americans initiated the largescale movement of struggle against discrimination and racial oppression, striving for social situation and social right. Theoretically, the black people should have gotten their freedom at President Lincoln39。s religious view of women is closely linked together with four main characteristics of her womanism which include countersex discrimination, counterracial discrimination, African centralism and humanitarianism. At the end of Celie’s selfconsciousness, Celie shouts: god is I! Influence of Other Women in The Color Purple In The Color Purple, the emphasis is placed on the oppressions of black women that they experience in their relationships with black men (fathers, brothers, husbands, lovers), and the struggle of black women. How do black women liberate themselves? They build a wall of camaraderie around themselves. Since they destroy the violence of the patriarchal system with the power of their unity and improve the relationships between men and women, black women finally succeed in liberating themselves, and in recreating themselves. They share in each other’s pain, sorrow, laughter, and dreams。s children and faithfully writes to Celie for decades. Nettie marries Samuel after Corrine39。s friend or eventually her lover. For Celie, the lesbian relationship with Shug is a kind of enlightenment of her own natural desire. To some extent, this can be seen as one form of resistance against patriarchy. Shug remains a gentle mentor who helps Celie evolve into an independent and assertive woman. The appearance of Shug, who is sensuous and independent, changes Celie’s life in another aspect. When Celie even sees the Shug’s photograph, she thinks that: “Shug Avery was a woman. The most beautiful woman I ever saw. She more pretty then my mama. She bout ten thousand times more prettier then me. I see her there in furs. Her face rouge. Her hair like somethin tail. She grinning with her foot up on somebody motocar. Her eyes serious tho. Sad some.” (Alice Walker 1982) 7 At first, Shug does not appear to be the mothering and nurturing kind, yet she nurtures Celie physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Now Celie learns to know her own body, and she finds the way to ingratiate herself. So her sexual awakening has begun with the help of Shug. Shug helps Celie discover the long lost letters from her sister Nettie that Albert has been hiding for decades. Not only the letters, Shug supplies her with even more hope and inspiration, showing Celie that everything works out for the best in the end. Selfconsciousness of Celie Under the effect of Shug, Nettie and Sofia, Celie’s self consciousness gradually wakes up and her metal progress walks into a