The Construction Of Female Subjectivity In Alice Walker’s Novels

Alice Walker is one of the most influential black female writers in contemporary American literature.She actively participated in the black civil rights movement and fought for the equal rights of black people all her life.She set off a wave of black women’s literature in the 1970 s.Since the publication of her first collection of poetry,Walker has published more than 30 works,and The Color Purple made her the first black woman writer in American history to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.Walker has always insisted that she is a "feminist" and distinguishes herself from "feminist".The originality of "feminism" lies in that,based on humanistic care,it breaks away from the confrontation between races and sexes,focuses on the scope of a certain group of men or women no longer,but hopes that human beings of different genders and races can completely integrate and live together peacefully.It can be seen that the thought and content of feminism are more complete and rich than that of feminism,which provides positive spiritual resources for the formation of the subject consciousness of black women.Based on walker created in 70,the 80 s and 90 s of the 20 th century Meridian,The Color Purple and The Light of Father’s Smile three novels as an example,using linear way to explore and analyze the cause of walker’s black female subjectivity and subjectivity rebuilt trajectories,tries to summarize and explore hide behind a surface characters of black feminist standpoint.Since the 1960 s,American society has been in turmoil,and the diversity of demands has led to the rise of various social movements.The diverse social and cultural landscape allows Walker to form a diversified,complex and constantly developing sense of identity,which is hidden in her novel writing.Based on The Color Purple,Walker’s novels can be divided into three stages: early,middle and late.Influenced by the black civil rights movement and the harsh social climate,Walker’s early novels tend to reflect on the selfidentity of black women from within ethnic groups,which are full of sharp racial selfconsciousness and high political consciousness.As the mother of black literary heritage and social reality of the deepening of cognition,walker to detect a black feminism to withdraw from the patriarchy society culture once again been exiled from white feminism,and the accompanying is black women’s significance and value of the absolute loss,their true voice were eliminated by the authority of the collective.Therefore,in the middle period of novel creation,Walker changed the radical state of his early creation.In The Color Purple,he took the epistolary narrative as his creation "mask",turned to the exploration of black women’s personal psychology,and focused on the analysis and affirmation of black women’s "self".In her later novels,Walker deliberately downplays the color of realism,and the spiritual world of black women in her novels has gradually become perfect,and the artistic conception of the words tends to be clear and ethereal.She reflects on the living status of black women in a more profound and theoretical way,and expresses the desire of black women to construct black women’s subjectivity by making public the right to use their bodies and the right to manage their voices.During this period,Walker fully realized that the black nation needed to achieve self-redemption and dynamic balance of gender power structure in order to achieve independence and freedom.Therefore,Walker’s later works not only focus on black women,but also pay close attention to black men.