艾丽丝.沃克是当代美国文坛上最有影响的作家之一。她的小说《紫色》不仅使她成了美国历史上第一位获得普利策文学奖的黑人女作家,而且使她提倡的妇女主义文学思想誉满全球。《紫色》这篇故事发生在上世纪初到第二次世界大战结束的这一段时期。小说描写一个黑人女子茜莉 Alice Walker is one of the most influential writers in the contemporary American literary arena. Her novel “Purple” not only made her the first black female writer in the history of the United States to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, but also fostered the women’s literary ideas she advocated worldwide. The story of “Purple” took place during this period from the beginning of the last century until the end of World War II. The novel describes a black woman Cherie