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  • 刊物名称:校园英语
  • 国内刊号:CN 13-1298/G4
  • 国际刊号:ISSN 1009-6426
  • 邮发代号: 18-116
  • 数据库收录:中国知网
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  • 作者:校园英语杂志社 字数:2856 点击:

    作者:梁平
      【Abstract】During the 1930s, black women in the United States suffered exceedingly low position. Discrimination from the white and abuse from black men put them under the double oppressions of racialism and sexism. Under the double bully,, black women have got used to find love and support from each other. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple conveys the idea that women can support and comfort each other in almost all the ways.
      【Key words】The Color Purple; women
      【作者簡介】梁平,上海政法学院外语学院。
      Published in 1982, The Color Purple is the international best-selling novel by Alice Walker, an African American writer. The epistolary tale relates the story of a poor black woman named Celie in her struggle for self-empowerment, sexual freedom, and spiritual growth in rural Georgia in the early twentieth century.
      In the 1930s, when Celie is fourteen years old. She has been raped and impregnated by her stepfather who she then believes to be her biological father. Afterward he warns, “You better not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy.” This chilling preface initiates the journal entries that Celie writes and addresses as letters to God. In the letters, Celie talks about her life and divulges her secret humiliation and pain that she finds nowhere to tell.
      Celie gives birth to two children named Adam and Olivia. Both are declared dead but actually given away by her stepfather. He then persuades a widowed farmer Albert to take Celie as his wife. Albert treats Celie just like a slave to look after his children and clean his house. But fortunately, she forges an unusual kinship with her husband’s former mistress, the blues singer Shug Avery. Shug encourages Celie to be strong and honor her own desires. Together the two women discover the secret that Albert has hidden all the letters from Celie’s sister Nettie whom Celie has believed dead. Years of correspondence from Nettie detail her experience as a Christian missionary in West Africa. Through the letters Celie learns that her two children are alive and have been adopted by Nettie’s benefactors, a preacher and his wife. Empowered by the existence of Nettie and her children, and strengthened by Shug’s love, Celie finds the courage to leave her abusive husband and opens her own sewing business. After the death of her stepfather, Celie inherits his house which is built on the property of her biological father. There she achieves a satisfying measure of financial security and independence, and even makes a tenuous reconciliation with Albert. At the conclusion of the novel, Nettie returns to America, and Celie is reunited not only with her sister but with her grown son and daughter as well.

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