| Content: A literary work is open to different interpretations. To Alice Walker's The Color Purple, people criticize it from various angles, for instance, the awakening of women, lesbian, religion, narrative technique. This dissertation adopts the methods of syntheses criticism and interprets the Womanism implied in the novel from liberation of black women and growth of black men. It aims at revealing how Alice Walker deduces the Womanism and constructs the ideal survival pattern of human beings by special narrative technique, from which, we can understand the connotation and significance of the Womanism.It consists of six parts. In introduction, it gives abstracts of the novel, the shaped different illumination by different critics. To counter the flaws in these illumination, I advance my own idea. In the first chapter, it tells the definition of Womanism and concludes its contents in three aspects, based on which it demonstrates the reason why Walker can put forward Womanism and interpret it with The Color Purple is that it originated from her identity as a marginal marginal person, that is, she is not only a black but a woman. In the second chapter, it explains how Celie, the heroine, overturns the phallus center and achieves self-realization. It offers two ways of how black women win liberation: one is to unite black women, the other is to research the tradition of black women. Viewing from the mythological archetypal criticism, in the third chapter, it clarifies the second aspect of Womanism: the problem of women is concerned with not only women but men. To solve the problem it needs efforts of women and growth of men as well. In the fourth chapter, it tells that Womanism of Walker is an assumption to solve the relation between black women and men. The assumption is fit for all the peoples. Actually, Walker is constructing the ideal survival pattern of human beings. In conclusion, it deals withthe significance and the deficiency of Womanism in The Color Purple.
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