小说《外婆的日用家当》收录在1973年出版的短篇小说集《寻找母亲的花园》里。~([1])作者是美国著名黑人女作家艾丽斯·沃克尔(1944—)。她生于佐治亚州一个贫穷的佃农家庭,大学时代适逢民权运动如火如荼地展开,她积极投身其中,毕业后赴民权运动中心密西西比州工作,后来成为大学教师,先后在几所高等学府讲授写作和黑人文学。今天她被公认为是美国妇女文学和黑人文学的最杰出代表,也是美国文学史上最杰出的作家之一。沃克尔出生在农村,在那 The novel “Grandmother’s Daily Households” is included in the short story collection “Looking for Mother’s Garden” published in 1973. ~ ([1]) The author is a famous American black woman writer Alice Walker (1944-). She was born in a poor tenant family in Georgia. Her college years coincided with the launching of the civil rights movement. She actively joined her. After graduation, she went to Mississippi to work for Citizens’ Rights Movement Center. Later on, she became a university teacher and successively taught writing at several institutions of higher learning Black literature. Today, she is widely recognized as the most outstanding representative of American women’s literature and black literature and one of the most outstanding writers in the history of American literature. Walker was born in the countryside, there