Alice Walker
Alice Walker简介
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Introduction Writing career Selected Awards and Honors The Color Purple
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Born：February 9, 1944 (age 72) Putnam County, Georgia, U.S.
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1988 — Living by the Word 1989 — The Temple of My Familiar 1991 — Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete 1991 — Finding the Green Stone 1992 — Possessing the Secret of Joy 1993 — Warrior Marks 1996 — Alice Walker: Banned 1996 — The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult 1997 — Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism 1998 — By the Light of My Father's Smile 2000 — The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
爱丽丝·沃克小说创作中的“非洲中心主义”
爱丽丝·沃克小说创作中的“非洲中心主义”摘要“非洲中心主义”思想代表着一种“非洲意识”的苏醒，尝试站在非洲人的位置并使用他们的视角看待和解决问题，它的出现是对原有“欧洲中心主义”思想的绝对统治地位的一次有力冲击。
非裔女性作家爱丽丝·沃克致力于描写非裔群体生活的悲欢离合。
其创作与“非洲中心主义”有深刻的联系：“非洲中心主义”是爱丽丝表达政治理念的重要概念，而她的创作也进一步丰富了美国非裔“非洲中心主义”理论话语体系。
学术界对于爱丽丝·沃克的讨论多集中在女性主义角度，但在对沃克作品的梳理过程中，我们可以清晰地看见“非洲中心主义”理论的痕迹。
本文在对爱丽丝·沃克与“非洲中心主义”相遇与接受进行考察的基础上，阐述其作品对“非洲中心主义”的文学表达。
论文包含绪论、正文与结语三个部分。
绪论介绍爱丽丝·沃克的文学创作情况、国内外研究现状以及研究思路。
其次，正文共分为四个章节，第一章关注“非洲中心主义”理论的诞生及特征，梳理其在非洲形成的详细过程以及后期在美国的发展情况，并结合沃克的访谈和文章探究沃克思考下的“非洲中心主义”的内涵。
沃克借“妇女主义”思想呼吁：以黑人在非洲大陆的根为骄傲，不能忘记民族的历史。
她建议艺术家们将优秀的非洲传统文化遗产同各式的艺术结合并将其传承下去，并肯定了具有生命力和惊人创造力的“黑人美”。
第二章分析沃克的“民俗性”与“黑人美”题材实践，分别阐述了民间口述故事、黑人医药与手工艺术的特色民俗价值，点明了黑人女性“生活艺术家”与“民权抗争者”的身份，也歌颂了老一辈黑人善良勤劳的本性。
第三章着重于讲述如何用“非洲中心主义”思想这一良方，救治遭受白人信仰精神毒害的非裔群体。
沃克用源于非洲传统的“泛灵论”改革了基督教思想，并重铸经典以此帮助非裔群体重拾信心。
她通过实践将上帝形象归于自然与母亲，还关注了独具黑人文化特色的伏都教法术。
最后一章从蓝调这一黑人叙事形式角度出发，阐述沃克作品中的布鲁斯特征。
Alice Walker作品简介
• 1965-"To Hell With Dying" (short stories) • 1973-In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women ( a collection short stories) • 1976-Meridian《子午线》(novel) • 1982-The Color Purple (novel) • 1989-The Temple of My Familiar (novel) • 1998-By the Light of My Father's Eyes (novel)
• It is a short story in In love and Trouble and remains a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we defined art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, "Everyday Use" anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Walker's life, authoritative texts of "Everyday Use" and "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens," an interview with Walker, six critical essays, and a bibliography.
Alice Walker
Alice WalkerFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAlice Malsenior Walker(born February 9, 1944) is an American author and activist. She wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple(1982) for which she won the National Book Awardand the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.爱丽丝沃克英文摘录自维基百科，自由的百科全书，罗金佑翻译爱丽丝.马尔瑟尼奥.沃克（Alice Malsenior Walker出生于1944年2月9日）是一位美国作家和活动家。
她写的广受好评的小说《紫色》（1982）为她赢得了国家图书奖和普利策小说奖。
Early lifeWalker was born in Putnam County, Georgia,the youngest of eight children, to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. Her father, who was, in her words, "wonderful at math but a terrible farmer," earned only $300 ($4,000 in 2013 dollars) a year from sharecroppingand dairy farming. Her mother supplemented the family income by working as a maid. She worked 11 hours a day for $17 per week to help pay for Alice to attend college.早期的生活沃克是出生在乔治亚州普特南县，是威利.里.沃克和米妮.楼.塔露拉.格兰特的八个孩子中最小的一位。
Alice-Walker作品简介只是分享
Feminist , feminism
《紫色》1983年一举拿下代表美国文学最 高荣誉的三大奖：普利策奖(Pulitzer Prize)、美国国家图书奖(The National Book Awards)、全国书评家协会奖 (NBCC Award)。
@@中国日报网站消息：美国 图书馆协会(ALA)日前公布研究 报告，黑人女作家艾丽丝·沃克 的小说《紫色》竟然与《哈 利·波特》、《魔戒》、《傲慢 与偏见》和莎士比亚戏剧一起， 成为被重读次数最多的文学作 品
3.此外,“紫色”除了象征生命的尊严和人类的希 望外, 紫色还是女同性恋主义的标志。书中对茜莉 和莎格·艾微利( Shug Avery) 的同性恋描写与严 格意义上的同性恋性关系是有区分的, 激进女权主 义者们声称, 女同性恋者实际上是自发的、“下意 识”的女权主义者,
---因此, 沃克大胆借用“紫色”为书 名,“把跪着的女性拉起来, 把她们提到 了王权的高度”, 让黑人妇女也享有帝 王般的尊严和社会地位。
Meridian is a heartfelt and moving story about one woman's personal revolution as she joins the Civil Rights Movement. Set in the American South in the 1960s it follows Meridian Hill, a courageous young woman who dedicates herself heart and soul to her civil rights work, touching the lives of those around her even as her own health begins to deteriorate. Hers is a lonely battle, but it is one she will not abandon, whatever the costs. This is classic Alice Walker, beautifully written, intense and passionate.
Everyday Use for Grandma (Alice Walker)
At the start of the novel, Celie views God as completely separate from her world. She writes to God because she has no other way to express her feelings. Celie's writing to God thrusts her into a rich symbolic life which results in her repudiation of the life she has been assigned and a desire for a more expansive daily existence.Her faith is strong, but it’s dependent on only what other people have revealed to her about God. Later she tells Shug that she sees God as a white man. She has this belief because everyone she knows has said God is white and a male. Later, Shug tells her God has no race or gender. This enables Celie to see God in a different way. She realizes that you cannot place qualities on God because God is a part of the unknown. Her faith is now based on her interpretation of God, not one she learned from someone else. Even though Shug helped her with this realization, Celie only used this knowledge to shape her faith. Shug was a huge influence on Celie’s faith, but Celie was the one that had to choose how she would express it.
ALICE WALKER 作者 Everyday Use 课文简介
Made by 少媚、瑞冰
Everyday Use
Biography
CHILDHOOD
born in Eatonton, Georgia , on February, 1944 youngest of eight children, grew up mostly with her 5 oldest brothers 1952-her brother shot her eye out with a BB gun blinding her one eye
Collision
Hope of preserving the black’s culture
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Rape Sexism Racism Violence Isolation Troubled relationships Multi-generational perspectives
Walker’s publishing
1968 Once (poetry)
1970-The Third
Mom Maggie Dee
conflict
different views on the African culture
◈ narrator of the story ◈ a typical black woman
◈ little education, poor, strong ◈ hard-working, independent,
♦ short story, widely studied
♦ first published in 1973 as part of In Love and
ALice-walker介绍
Child:
Rebecca born in 1969
2. Education:
1961-1963 Spelman, a college for black women in Atlanta 1963-1965 Sarah Lawrence College in New
York (once traveled to Africa as an exchange student)
Main works
课文主旨
所获奖项
awards
In 1997 she was honored by the American Humanist Association (美国 人道主义协会 )as“ Humanist of the year ”She has also received a number of other awards for her body of work ,including: The Lillian Smith Award (莉莲史密斯奖 ) from the National Endowment for Arts( 国家 艺术基金会 )。The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts&letters etc.
英语论文
青岛工学院毕业论文（设计）On the Eco-Feminism in Color Purple浅析《紫色》中的生态女性主义》学生姓名孙筱雅学号201201105331指导教师陈荟荟学院外语学院专业英语年级2012 级答辩日期 2015 年 6 月 13 日青岛工学院On the Eco-Feminism in Color Purple浅析《紫色》中的生态女性主义完成日期:指导教师签字:评阅教师签字:答辩小组组长签字:答辩小组成员签字:摘要艾丽斯·沃克(Alice Walker,1944-)是美国优秀的黑人女作家。
身为一名黑人女性，沃克更为关注黑人的困境、沉默的黑人女性以及生态环境等社会问题。
《紫色》是艾丽斯·沃克的代表作之一，在黑人文学史上有着深远的影响。
在《紫色》中,沃克描述了黑人妇女和自然在父权制社会统治下的遭遇，和努力寻求自我的过程。
本文以生态女性主义为视角，在性别压迫,种族歧视，生态危机的基础上，指出了父权制对自然与女性的双重统治，也探讨了女性和自然反抗压迫寻求和谐共存的道路。
本文从四个方面探讨了作者的生态女性主义意识。
首先简要介绍了国内外对艾丽斯·沃克的《紫色》的文学评论，提出了生态女性主义理论对艾丽斯·沃克作品的影响。
其次分析了小说中女性所遭受的双重压迫以及人类对自然环境的掠夺，并指明二者受压迫的同源性:父权制的统治。
然后论述了女性和自然反抗父权制统治的声音:女性的团结互助以及自然对人类的预警。
最后分析了黑人男性的转变，白人和黑人关系的转变，提出了男性与女性、白人与有色人种、人类与自然和平共处的可能性。
用生态女性主义理论来解读《紫色》可以拓宽对小说及作者创作思想的研究，同样也可以呼吁人类自身对生态平衡的关注与保护。
关键词:《紫色》；生态女性主义；黑人妇女；和谐AbstractAlice Walker(1944-) is one of the most remarkable African-American writers in American literature. As a black woman, Walker pays more concerns on such issues as the plight of blacks, the muted group of black women,nature, and other social problems in American.The Color Purple one of her masterpieces,which has profound influence in the history of the African literature.In the novel,Walker depicts the oppression upon black women and the exploitation of nature in the patriarchal society and their searching for self identity as well. This thesis illustrates homogeneity of twin domination upon the black women and nature, and puts forward ways for harmonious survival of human and nature by close examination of gender oppression, racial discrimination and ecological crisis in The Color Purple. My thesis will be divided into four main parts. Firstly,I will make a brief introduction to literary review on Alice Walker's The Color Purple and introduces ecofeminism and its effects on Alice Walker's works. Secondly, specific analysis will be given to reveal the dominance over nature and women, and to illustrate the same cause for it: patriarchal domination. Thirdly, it illustrates the voices of rebellion from black women and nature: women's unity and alliance and the nature's pre-warning upon human beings. At last,based on the fictional details, it presents an analysis of transformation of the black men and the white; thus gives us a hopeful possibility for co-existence of human beings and nature. From the ecofeminist approach, it is expected to shed fresh light on the research of the novel and Walker's spirits and evoke more attention to ecological balance.Key words：“Color Purple”; eco-feminism; the black women; harmonyContents摘要 (I)Abstract (II)Chapter One Alice Walker and Eco-Feminism (1)1.1 Alice Walker and Literary Review on her Color Purple错误！未定义书签。
文学作家作品之The Color Purple
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted (颁布)between 1876 and 1965. They mandated（批准）de jure（根据法律 的） racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages.
Activism
Alice Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. when she was a student at Spelman College in Atlanta in the early 1960s. Walker credits King for her decision to return to the American South as an activist for the Civil Rights Movement. She attended the famous 1963 March on Washington. On March 8, 2003, International Women's Day, on the eve of the Iraq War, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, author of "The Woman Warrior", and Terry Tempest Williams, author of "An Unspoken Hunger" were arrested along with 24 others for crossing a police line during an anti-war protest rally outside the White House. Walker wrote about the experience in her essay "We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For.“
Alice Walker
Select awards and honors
• • • • • • • • • • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Color Purple (1983) (first black woman). National Book Award (First black woman) O. Henry Award for "Kindred Spirits" 1985. Honorary Degree from the California Institute of the Arts (1995) American Humanist Association named her as "Humanist of the Year" (1997) The Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Merrill Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship The Front Page Award for Best Magazine Criticism from the Newswoman's Club of New York Induction to the California Hall of Fame in The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts (2006)
艾丽斯·沃克《紫色》的象征隐喻解析
艾丽斯·沃克《紫色》的象征隐喻解析关键词：黑人文化女性主义象征隐喻摘要：美国黑人文学的女性代表作家艾丽斯·沃克以黑人民族的独特文化内涵来彰显“黑人美”。
在长篇小说《紫色》中，她成功运用了黑人文学最突出的艺术手法——象征隐喻。
基于盖茨的喻指理论，对《紫色》中的象征隐喻艺术手法进行了解析。
非洲裔美国黑人女作家艾丽斯·沃克(Alice Walker)出生于美国黑人聚居的佐治亚州的贫困乡村，自幼耳闻目睹南方黑人的悲惨生活，尤其是黑人妇女，她们遭受双重压迫——一方面受到白人社会的歧视，另一方面又忍受着黑人男性的欺压，因为黑人社会也沿袭了白人社会对待男性和女性的双重标准。
正如胡克斯所说，“黑人妇女不仅在白人统治者手下受折磨，而且也在黑人男人手下受折磨。
”在大学时代，沃克就积极参加民权运动，并立志将争取种族平等和黑人妇女解放作为自己的终身事业。
因此，沃克的小说创作始终植根于美国黑人的文化传统，美国黑人，尤其是美国黑人妇女的历史、命运和前途是其小说创作的主题，她关注的焦点主要集中在处于社会最底层的黑人妇女的命运和她们的精神世界。
与同时代的美国黑人女作家托尼·莫里森一道，沃克把黑人女性推上了美国文学，特别是美国黑人文学的殿堂，让世人听到了她们的呻吟和呐喊。
美国黑人评论家玛丽·海伦·华盛顿称沃克为黑人妇女的“辩护士”，说她是“为了捍卫一个事业或一种立场而发言写作的”。
沃克的代表作长篇小说《紫色》为读者建构了一个在异质文化侵蚀下怪诞、变形的黑人世界，成功地塑造了主人公茜莉在白人社会和黑人男性双重压迫下寻找自我、重塑自我，从而获得新生的艰难历程。
《紫色》连获美国三项大奖——普利策奖、美国图书奖、全国图书评委协会奖，细细品味，我们不难发现：小说采用书信体形式的叙述方式，运用娴熟的黑人民间口语和象征隐喻的手法刻画人物并探寻人物的心灵，人物形象鲜活生动，栩栩如生；作者不是仅仅停留在描写黑人妇女的悲惨生活上，而是深入探讨黑人女性遭受不公平待遇的社会历史根源，并寻求解决途径——妇女之间的互爱互助是她们获得幸福和自的最佳手段。
爱丽丝沃克黑人女作家的文学成就
爱丽丝沃克黑人女作家的文学成就爱丽丝沃克（Alice Walker）是一位杰出的黑人女性作家，她的文学成就对于美国文学界的影响深远。
本文将探讨爱丽丝沃克的文学成就，从她的作品主题和风格、对社会议题的关注以及获得的荣誉等方面进行分析。
爱丽丝沃克的作品主题广泛，涉及种族、性别、阶级和人性等复杂问题。
她深入挖掘黑人女性的内心世界，以自己的亲身经历和观察为基础，展现了黑人女性在白人主导社会中所面临的困境和抗争。
她的小说《紫色的十字绣》（The Color Purple）以及同名电影的成功让她名声大噪。
这部作品描写了一个黑人女性在20世纪初美国南方贫困农场上的成长经历，通过主人公塞利（Celie）的眼睛展现了她所经历的强奸、家庭暴力和种族歧视的残酷现实。
爱丽丝沃克的作品风格独特，她善于将现实主义与神话元素相结合，营造出独特的文学氛围。
她经常运用非线性叙事和多重视角，呈现出丰富多样的人物形象和情感冲突。
她的作品中常常使用象征主义手法，以强调特定的主题或寓意。
例如，在《紫色的十字绣》中，紫色的色彩象征着独立、反抗和自我实现；而红色则代表着情欲和激情。
这种独特的风格赋予了她的作品强大的表现力和感染力。
爱丽丝沃克的作品不仅关注个体的成长和生存，更关注社会的不公平和压迫。
她揭示了美国社会黑人、女性和穷人所面临的种种困境，同时也呼吁社会的变革和正义。
她的作品经常探讨种族主义、性别歧视和阶级分化等社会议题，引发了广泛的讨论和反思。
她用文字捕捉到了社会的脉动和人们的痛苦，以此呼唤人们对于社会问题的关注和行动。
爱丽丝沃克凭借其杰出的文学成就获得了众多的荣誉和奖项。
她是第一位非裔美国女性获得普利策文学奖的作家，这一荣誉展示了她在文学界的地位和影响力。
此外，她还获得了美国国家图书奖、全美书评人协会奖和女性书籍奖等多个重要文学奖项。
这些荣誉不仅肯定了她的文学才华，也为她的作品赢得了更广泛的读者和关注。
总结起来，爱丽丝沃克是一位值得推崇的黑人女性作家，她的文学成就不仅表现在她广泛的作品主题和独特的风格上，更在于她对社会问题的关注和呼唤。
alice walker简介
简介
艾丽丝·沃克(Alice Walker,1944—)是20世纪70年代以来(欧美国家第二次妇女
运动之后)美国文坛最著名的黑人女作家之一。
她在她的小说里生动的反映了黑人女性的苦难，歌颂了她们与逆境搏斗的精神和奋发自立的坚强性格。
为了区别于其它女权主义者，她提出了“妇女主义”(Womanism)这一独特的思想概念。
如果说妇女主义是理论，她的长篇小说《紫色》(The Color Purple)便是对这一理论的具体实践。
《紫色》自1982年发表以来，便轰动美国文坛，接连获得了美国文学作品的三个大奖：普利策奖、全国图书奖和全国书评家奖。
艾丽丝·沃克成为获得普立策奖和全国图书奖的第一个黑人女作家。
影响
艾丽丝·沃克1983年曾随美国女作家代表团来华。
除《紫色》及一两个短篇外，艾丽丝的其他作品在中国译介不多。
她的最新小说是《在我父亲微笑的光芒下》（1998），该小说采用了多重的叙事角度，讲述了性与精神、父亲与女儿的关系，尤其剖析了几代人的不同观念。
评论界的反应不是很热烈，可见艾丽丝·沃克还没有成功地超越自我。
但不管是她自己还是别的黑人女作家，超越《紫色》本来就是一件不太容易的事，所以《紫色》在今天大家还在读。
可见《紫色》还在红着。
TheColorPurple 紫色 爱丽丝 沃克
• Later, she is forced into a loveless marriage, leaving her sister Nettie alone with Alphonso. Nettie escapes his sexual advances by moving in with Celie and her husband, Mr. Albert. This arrangement is no better than the previous one and Nettie is again forced to leave. She ultimately ends up in Africa where she writes to Celie of her experiences.
• For Celie, marriage is nothing more than a shift within the quicksands of abuse and male domination. Albert beats her because she is not Shug Avery, the woman he loves but does not have the courage to marry. Surprisingly, Celie and Shug develop an intimate relationship. More than anyone, Shug's influential presence and acceptance give Celie the strength she needs to redefine herself, take charge of her life, and leave Albert.
Alice_Walker and her works
Group members: 伍俊敏 曾翠 梁贤贤
Contents
1.Brief Introduction
2.Early life ＆experiences
3.Her works 4.Selected awards ＆ honors 5.Reference
Brief Introduction
The Color Purple (film)
Finding the Green Stone (1991) Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) The Complete Stories (1994) By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998) The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000) Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart (2005) Devil's My Enemy (2008) The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) Meridian (1976) The Color Purple(1982) You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories (1982) To Hell With Dying (1988) The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
• This collection of short stories portrays black women who vary greatly in background but are bound together by their vulnerability to life. Roselily, on her wedding day, prayed that a loveless marriage will bring her respectability. A young writer, exploited(利用） by both her lover and her husband, took revenge ironically . A jealous wife, looking for her husband's mistress, found a competitor she cannot fight.
英语论文艾丽斯·沃克《紫色》浅析
AbstractThe Color Purple is one of the masterpieces of Alice Walker. Her work, along with that of such writers as Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, is commonly associated with the Afro-American women‟s literature. Alice Walker‟s attitude towards race, gender, class issue and her interest in the people and nature of Africa, are rooted deeply in her literary works. So I want to give an analysis on the inner world of Alice Walker in The Color Purple. This thesis can be divided into three parts: her views of racism, her views of feminism, and her views of Africa.The first chapter discusses Alice Walker‟s thought on racial oppression in The Color Purple. This chapter will support my view from two black images. From the two characters, we can deeply understand Walker‟s view on her anti-racism.The second chapter analyzes Alice Walker‟s thought on pioneering Feminism in The Color Purple. Walker regards “sisterhood” as the solution to realize women‟s consciousness-raising and to strive for final freedom. Cilice, Shag, Nettie, Sophia and other black women should struggle together for their freedom and happy life.The third chapter discusses special feelings towards Africa. Walker shows her sympathy for the Africans. They live in bad conditions. They are aggressed by the strong European countries. Alice Walker also thinks that the original reason why Africans fall behind the strong European countries is education.In a word, the description about the different characters and their different fates in the end refle ct Alice Walker‟s spiritual world.Key words spiritual world anti-racism view feminism thought Africa complex摘要《紫色》是艾丽斯·沃克的代表作。
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You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down:(1982) To Hell With Dying (1988)
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Novels and short story collections
The Temple of My Familiar (1989) Finding the Green Stone (1991) Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) The Complete Stories (1994) By The Light of My Father's Smile (1998) The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart (2000) Now Is The Time to Open Your Heart (2005) Devil's My Enemy (2008
2. Education: 1961-1963 Spelman, a college for black women in Atlanta 1963-1965 莎拉.劳伦斯 学院
3. Career 1983 received the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple (1982) 1984 started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Press
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Select awards and honors
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Color Purple (1983) (first black woman). National Book Award (First black woman) .Honorary Degree from the California Institute of the Arts (1995) The Lillian Smith Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
Alice walker语言风格
Alice walker语言风格
Alice walker语言风格既有强烈的批判性又有传统的积极和乐观态度。
例如其代表小说《紫色》描述了一位受旧思想束缚的黑人妇女的转变和成长过程，充分展现了黑人女性深受性别和种族双重压迫的现实状况和生活境遇，以及对这种双重压迫的反抗和对完善自我及完美生活的渴望与追求，深刻反映了作者的妇女主义思想。
《紫色》还深刻地揭示了妇女主义思想的内涵和对黑人妇女求解放、求平等的积极意义。
如第一人称复数用Us，用大写的He或Pa 指代主角的继父，用Mr-称呼那些不配有姓名的男人等，揭示黑人男女，黑人家庭。
黑人内部的弊病，这种与众不同的语言策略充分体现了作者的黑人意识和民族观念。
Alice Walker
Growing up with an oral tradition, listening
Early life and Experiences
At the age of 8,she lost sight of one eye
by accident. She went on to become valedictorian of her local school and attended Spelman College ,Sarah Lwrence College by scholarship,graduating in 1965. She was even invited to Martin Luther King's home because she had attended the Youth World Peace Festival in Helsinki,Finland.
California Institute of the Arts（加州艺术学 院） In1997 American Humanist Association （美 国人道主义协会)named her as "Humanist of the Year"
Selected awards and honors
The Lillian Smith Award（莉莲史密斯奖）
from the National Endowment for the Arts （国家艺术基金） The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts & Letters The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship,（拉德克 里夫学院奖学金) the Merrill Fellowship（梅林 奖学金）, and a Guggenheim Fellowship（古根 海姆奖学金）
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Her short story collections
Women (includes "Everyday Use")
In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black
You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down.
The Color Purple
Themes: Racism and sexism Disruption of traditional gender roles
In mid-1990s, she dated with Tracy Chapman, a female singer-songwriter.
Activist:
She took part in Civil Right Movement,and the 1963 March
on Washington.
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References
An African-American wrifor watching
The Color Purple (1981)
The Temple of My Familiar (1989)
Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)
By the Light of My Father’s Smile (1998)
Now Is the Time To Open Your Heart (2004)
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of women of color in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture.
Education:
1961-1963 Spelman,a college for black woman in A tlanta on a full scholarship 1963-1965 Sarah Lawrence College in New York
Marriage:
1967-1976 Melvyn Roseman Leventhal, a Jewish Civil Right Movement activist/lawyer. 1969,her daughter Rebecca was born
An African-American writer
Alice Walker
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Date of Birth: Februray 9,1944 Birth Place: Putnam County,Georgia,United States Parents: Willie Lee and Minnie LouGrant Walker,who were sharecroppers. Family Bacground: She was the eighth child of her family,and her right eye was shot by her brother when she was 8,ultimately she went blind in that eye.
Walker aslo won the 1986 O.Henry Award for her story "Kindred Spirits",published in Esquire magazine in A ugust 1985
Awards
In 1997 she was honored by the American Humanist Association(美国 人 道主义协会)as“ Humanist of the year ” She has also received a number of other awards for her body of work ,including: The Lillian Smith Award (莉莲史密斯奖) from the National Endowment for Arts(国家 艺术基金会)。 The Rosenthal Award from the National Institute of Arts&letters.
Awards
In 1983, The Color Purple Won the Puliter Prize for Fiction,makeing Walker the first black woman to win.Walker was aslo the first black woman to win the National Book Award.
Her works:
7 novels
4 collections of short stories
4 children's books 7 volumes of essays and poetry
Novels
The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)
Meridan (1976)