佐拉·赫斯顿与艾丽斯·沃克是20世纪美国黑人文学代表人物,但是在赫斯顿一生中,其文学造诣并未受到公众认可,直到沃克将其发觉出来并公之于众,沃克甚至将赫斯顿视为她的文学之母。二者在黑人女性主义观点上具有一脉相承的关系。文章从赫斯顿的《汗水》与沃克的《紫色》出发,对比两位女主人公与命运抗争的异同经历,总结出沃克除了继承了赫斯顿惯有的黑人女性反抗男权社会的勇气与胜利,还将其提高到一个更高的层次,即认同黑人女性在黑人社区以及白人社区平等公民的身份。 Zola Heston and Alice Walker are representatives of African American black literature in the 20th century. However, during his life, Heston’s literary attainments were not recognized by the public until Walker discovered and made it known to public. Heston regarded her as the mother of literature. The two have the same strain of relationship in the view of black feminism. Starting with Hurstton’s “Sweat” and Walker’s “Purple”, the article compares the similarities and differences between the two heroines and their fate struggle and concludes that Walker, in addition to inheriting the courage of the conventional Black women in Heston and opposing the patriarchal society, Victory, but also to a higher level, that is, to identify black women in black communities and white community equal citizenship.