| Alice Walker is an influential black female writer. As a black female writer, Walker has the personal experience of the black's hardship and suffering from racial discrimination in the white society. Meanwhile, she is sensitive to the passive influence of the white values on the black men and the black women's intensified pressure. Under the double oppressions—racial discrimination and patriarchal domination—the black women's fate is particularly miserable. In order to assist her black sisters to be out of their trapped lot, Walker attaches great importance to "sisterhood". She calls on all black women to unite for realizing their collective liberation. Differentiating from white feminism, Walker coins the term of womanism. Womanism believes that the ultimate goal of women's emancipation is to establish an equal and harmonious relationship with men, and then to realize the survival and wholeness of the entire human race.Alice Walker's representative work, The Color Purple has become very popular ever since its publication in 1982. It has aroused wide attention in the critical field, and has created lots of enlightening researches of its form, content and theme. Applying womanism theory to my study of The Color Purple, the thesis is composed of six parts.The first part serves as an introduction to the writer's status in literary canon, to her major works, and to the influence of life experiences on her literary creation. Meanwhile a brief introduction of The Color Purple is also included in this part.Chapter One provides readers with the background for the coinage of the...
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