【正文】 k women’s dark life. Because of the light, black women begin their pursuing of believes, the shape of the God in their mind. Alice Walker does not ply with Christianity blindly. With the developing of Celie’s character, the author has made her Walkertype graphic solution to Christianity and to God. This subverts the traditional Christian concept that God is a white man, and the concept in black men’s mind that he is the God. In The Color Purple, black woman shouted loudly: God is I! God is a black woman! This liberated belief is one of the most important topics of The Color Purple. Is God a white man? In Celie’s mind, “He big and old and tall and graybearded and white. He wear white robes and gobarefooted. ” (Alice Walker 1982) 201 In short, it is an old white man. However, what white men have done? They hurt Celie’s friends. They kill Netie’s father and brothers, and poison the intrepid black woman Sofia who breaks her ribs and her head, blinds in one eye. In the novel, Shug is the earliest woman who is selfconscious. She says: “when I found out I thought God was white, and a man, I lost interest.” (Alice Walker 1982) 202These words encourage Celie to be selfconsciousness. Is God a black man? Racial segregation and racial discrimination protect black women stand in the black world from the white men, but they can not escape black men. The biggest misery that black women suffer is imposed by black men who said he is the God of black women. Celie is told by Shug: “men make all fall” and “he is trying if you believe that he is everywhere, you just thought he was God. But he is not God.” “You must erase man’s eye from yours eyeball, you can see all things.” (Alice Walker 1982)184. Be told these words, Celie’s independent mind bees more and more powerful. God is a black woman. In The Color Purple, the heroine is shaped by the author in the ability of personalities, talents are relatively weak. Without the positive caring, loving and encouraging of the other women, she is impossible to get rid of slavery and bees selfconscious. Shug encourages Celie to discover herself, to know herself, to face herself, to confirm herself, and to liberate herself. Sofia is a black woman in this novel who has the most rebellious spirit. For Celie, Sofia is freer than God in spirit. Nettie is Celie’s loving caregivers and spiritual mentor. They are the necessary factors in Celie’s selfconsciousness. They shout the strongest sound though their College of Foreign Languages, Hebei United University 8 smiles that are full of their blood, tears, and sweat. They are loved by God—they are God! God is I! The author surmounts race, sex and belief to liberate men, white men, white women, all of human and world. This is the perfect expression of Alice walker’s womanism. Walker39。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。 本文從心理、社會(huì)、文化、信仰等方面來分析黑人女性如何在 她們地位受壓迫的時(shí)代突破雙重枷鎖。本文通過分析《紫色》，去觀察黑人女性的自我覺醒過程，在種族歧視和男權(quán)主義的雙重壓迫下，女主角西里由忍受到自我認(rèn)識(shí)，最后到自我覺醒的精神狀態(tài)的改變，沖破了種族歧視和男權(quán)主義兩道精神枷鎖。s liberation is not narrow. She recognized that a black woman was not only the black, but also a woman, a human being. Women39。 not only the society, but also the family. The protagonist of The Color Purple is Celie. She is a fourteenyearold black girl who is raped by her stepfather when her mother is away and is warned by her father not to tell “anyone but God”. After her mother’s death, her two children are taken away by her stepfather, and she bees a slave both physically and sexually to her stepfather. After her stepfather getting tired of her, she is forced to marry a widower Albert. Albert doesn’t love Celie at all but needs a servant to cook and clean for him and take care of his three children. Celie is still physically and sexually abused by Albert, but she still keeps silent for she thinks that accepting everything silently is the best and the only way to “staying alive”. When she is beaten, she said: “he beats me like he beats the children. Cept he don’t never beat them….it all I can do not cry, I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That is how e I know trees fear man.”(Alice Walker 1982) 22 Her sister Nettie teaches her to fight with them, but Celie answers: “But I don39。s children. Through explaining her experiences to Celie, Nettie encourages Celie to be more enthusiastic and optimistic about life. The sisterhood between the two sisters brings up hope and enlightenment for Celie, and her consciousness has started to sprout. Sofia If Nettie is a lighthouse, Sofia is the quant that takes her to bright future. Sofia, the wife of Albert’s son, is the first woman whose own life is to fight her father, brother, uncle and husband with rebellious spirit in The Color Purple. She is beautiful, smart and strong, but the most important thing is that she is one of some women at that time who dare to say no to the dominant men. She is against the socalled social standards and often says no to them bravely. Her husband wants to enslave her as other men, but to his surprise Sofia is not a woman who keeps silent and accepts the cruel and unfair judgment. Instead, what she often does is quarreling and even fighting against her husband. She is successful in the black family, but when faced to the white, she is