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The Development Way Of The Black Women:the Comparison Between The Purpse And The Help

Posted on:2014-01-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X ZhengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330401956502Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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The research object of this thesis is mainly from the black female writer Alice Walker’s "purple" and the United States of America emerging white female writer Catherine Stockett’s "help". Method of comparative study, of two works of black women images,"sisterhood" themes and narrative techniques such as the use of the core, in order to find the black women’s spiritual growth path.This paper is divided into five parts. The introduction part mainly introduces the creation of Alice Walker and Catherine Stockett’s life story and two novels, this article combines these academic achievements, to illustrate the research direction and significance.The first chapter called "the awakening of the protest:’purple’and’help’of female image", in the two works of authors will image of American black women as the main characters of two works, so the black women images first article mainly black female literary creation as material, the black women images compare the two works, found that black women are women grow. In the face of racism and sexism, these black women are transformed from the beginning of the insensitive to have mature thought independent woman.The second chapter mainly embarks from the perspective of "sisterhood", comparative analysis the main way of black women’s growth of two works. Through comparative analysis, the black women images in the two novels are initially in the face of the "inhuman" trouble is in the spirit of numbness or weakness in a state of resistance, but the ethnic inside and white "sisters" in their help to generate independent ego consciousness, and this has become their important opportunity and a mark of true independence.The third chapter is the study of the two works of narrative technique, find the author is cleverly showed growth of growing up female by how narrative skills.In the conclusion part, the paper generally summarizes the two works in the character image,"sisterhood" themes and narrative method in the overall performance, not only can clearly see the circumstances of two works of black women, and through a comparative study can see the growth process of the black women in two novels is different.
Keywords/Search Tags:Black Female, Spiritual Growth, The Purple, The Help
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