Alice Walker 's Eco - Feminist Writing

Alice Walker is one of Female Literature and African-American literature representative writer who has the most influential.Gender, race, and nature has been inseparable whole in Walker’s literature,As a staunch womanist, Walker’s literature also embodies a distinct ecological awareness.Eco-feminism is the new theoretical thoughts was born of the contemporary environmental movement and the feminist movement,With its pioneering and revolutionary,It calls attention to nature and women,and advocate to build a new ethics based on love, care and justice system.As a feminist literary classics,The Color Purple not only reproduces the black woman’s survival condition faithfully with historic technique of writing,but also paints nature’s real situation under the dual hierarchical deeply, and expresses the writer’s aesthetic ideal which of man and woman’s body and soul together in one,human and nature live in harmony, In this sense, this novel has been contained abundant ecological feminist spirit.This article bases on the theory study and the writer study,discussing the ecological feminist writing in The Color Purple from four aspects,analyzing the ecological feminist ideas of Alice Walker,and the cultural value and modern enlightenment in the novel at the same time.Besides the introduction and conclusion, in this paper, the article is divided into four parts.The introductory part explores the ecological feminist theory systematically,and reviews the current research situation at home and abroad about Walker,and puts forward the specific tasks and innovation points, on the basis of pointing out research reason and the significance.The main content of the article:The first chapter,Theory basis of the Alice Walker’s ecological feminism research. This chapter reviews Eco-feminism and Eco-feminist literary criticism, from three aspects to analysis the thought of ecological feminist tendency of Walker respectively,they are writer’s growing up experiences, womanist ideology and Walker’s literature practice, to explain the rationality of the thesis research.The second chapter, The natural image and female image in The Color Purple.In Walker’s works, nature presents the mother’s garden image, is home to the survival of humans; Black women under the sexism suffered the double oppression of racism; At the same time, the natural image exists a great intimacy between female image,which is in symbols, experience and status.The third chapter,The deconstruction of the edge of nature and woman’s status in The Color Purple. In terms of relationship between human and nature, Walker digestion Anthropocentrism through natural warning; In terms of rights and order, encourage women to against the Phallus Centrism through their own efforts; In terms of ideology and culture, through bold subversion Christian theology view in order to eliminate from the source to nature and the status of women in the other mode of thinking.The fourth chapter,Ecological Ethical Spirit in The Color Purple and of Alice Walker.In Alice Walker’s works,the object of the liberation is not only the women, but also including male and all of life.Through the novel,the authors passed on the respect and caring type of Ecological Morality, equality and harmony of Ethics Morals, and the Animism which is come from the Africa ancient religious culture,to construct the unique ecological feminist aesthetic ideal of herself.Conclusion part summarizes the three aspects of Alice walker ecological feminist ideas. Excavation of literature classic has the great significance on the development of Eco-feminist literary criticism,Walker make the extension of the literary creation to the race,and put her personal life experience into Ecological Feminism writing consciously,Her rooted in the African traditional culture deeply, make her creation is full of the rich connotation about emancipation of the life and nature.