【正文】 s pursuit of the blues reflects the appreciation of the African culture． Although the plot is simple, this novel is far from being simple. Robinson claimes that “Like a skillfully crafted quilt, The Color Purple incorporates recognizable pieces of literary traditions into its own pattern, including slave narrative, domestic novel, epistolary novel, bildungsroman, fairytale, romance, and even existential novel.”( Robinson, 1996:32). Maroula Joannou acclaims that “the influence of The Color Purple in progressive academic circles was unprecedented” (Maroula Joannou, 20xx:101). 3 1. Theoretical Framework The Theory of Womanism In 1983, Alice Walker creatively put forward the concepts of “womanist” and “womanism” to replace “feminist” and “feminism” in her important collection of essaysIn Search of our Mothers’ Gardens. In this book, Alice Walker makes a concrete and vivid illustration of the black women?s ideal state, and defines the term “womanism” as follows: 1. A black feminist or feminist of color. From the black folk expression of mothers to female children “You acting womanish” that means you act like a woman, usually referring to outrageous, audacious, courageous, or willful behavior. Wanting to know more and in greater depth than is considered “good for one”. She is responsible. She is in charge. She is serious. 2. A woman who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually, appreciates and prefers women?s culture. Committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female. 3. A woman who loves music and dance. She loves the moon. She loves the spirit. She loves the food and roundness. She loves struggle. She loves the folk. She loves herself. She is regardless. 4. Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. (Walker, 1983: xixii) Walker creates the term “womanist” to show the differences with white feminists. Womanism is a unity oantisexism,antiracialism, Africa centralism and humanism, which is regareded as the core of Walker?s spiritual world. Alice Walker stresses that the womanist “Committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female” (Walker, 1983:77). Survival whole is the core of womanism. Walker?s womanism is not only against the gender discrimination, but also against the inequality of race and class. Alice Walker calls for all people of different races, colors and genders coexist equally and peacefully to achieve human?s survival whole. Advocating the Braveness and Confidence of black women Alice Walker gives the origin of the womanism in the first interpretation. Hence a womanist must have some characters which the word “womanish” implies, such as brave, courageous, responsible, selfconfident, and grownup and so on. As a womanist, Alice Walker shows these characters pletely. When Alice Walker was young, she was very confident. She dared to cry out “I?m the prettiest” in front of her brothers (Walker 1983, 385). Alice Walker actively took part in the Civil Rights Movement and Black Women?s Movement, When she studied in college. What?s more, she was the pioneer who opens black women literature course in college. Praising the Sisterhood of Black Women In Alice Walker?s works, we can find that the good relationship among women can be found everywhere. For instance, In The Color Purple, the mutual love and 4 support among Celie, Sofia, Nettie, Shug, and Squeak, demonstrates the important influence of sisterhood on the liberation of black women. Alice Walker also emphasizes women?s emotion and women?s culture, one of which is making quilts. When Alice Walker wrote The Color Purple, she lived a very simple life in a mountain village, but she still did not fet to make the quilt. “I bought […] a quilt pattern my mama swore was easy,[…].I worked on my quilt […].My quilt began to grow” (Walker 1983, 358). To some extent, making quilts help her to finish the novel. In The Color Purple, Celie, Sophie and Shug also made a quilt named “sister?s choice”, which symbolizes their precious friendships. Pursuing the Harmony of Two Sexe Alice Walker never fets black men. The womanist should mit themselves to the entire things of the world, whether they are male or female, human beings or nature. Sometimes, Alice Walker is criticized by her negative depiction of men, especially black men, but she is not a separatist. Alice Walker only wants to show human beings a fact that black woman is suffering unfair treatments and great hurt. Therefore, great hurt hopes that black men can realize and rectify their problem. And they can bee friends of black women. At the end of The Color Purple, the change of Albert and Harpo is a good illustration of Walker?s wish of achieving the harmony of two sexes. The American Heritage Dictionary defines womanist as: “Having or expressing a belief in or respect for women and their talents and abilities beyond the boundaries of race and class。s life. They reveal that in Africa, just as in America, women are persistently oppressed by men. Shug Shug is a charming and rebellious character“ in short skirt， smoking cigarettes，drinking gin， music for money and talking about slut， hussy， heifer and street cleaner”(walker， 1982： 49)． According to Alice Walker, womanists are who loves dance， loves music， loves the spirit， loves love and loves herself. It appears that Shug is a womanist who expresses her real feelings in the music and firmly believes the blues themes of love，sexuality and freedom． Shug is a very extroverted and transcendental character. She is Albert39。第三部分從婦女主義的角度分析《紫色》中的四個女性。 The Color Purple。她的小說《紫色》直接探討了黑人男女之間的矛盾和沖突，以及黑人婦女的艱難成長之路，提出了兩性之間和諧相處的可行之道，并從多個角度展現(xiàn)了“婦女主義”的要旨，是沃克的婦女主義思想的完美體現(xiàn)，被譽為永恒的經(jīng)典。 綜上，愛麗絲 ?沃克提出的婦女主義不僅克服了傳統(tǒng)女權(quán)主義的缺點，而且也為解放廣大黑人婦女提供了一個新的視角，使她們能更勇敢的面對自己的人生，也更有勇氣實現(xiàn)男女之間的