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美国当代著名黑人女作家爱丽斯·沃克的代表作《紫色》发表于一九八二年,继而在美国引起轰动,次年获得美国普利策文学奖。《紫色》以它并不十分曲折、复杂,然而感人至深,催人泪下的故事情节,向世界生动地揭示了美国社会当前重大问题——在种族和性别双重歧视下美国黑人妇女漫长的自救道路。一《紫色》叙说的故事发生在第二次世界大战前夕的美国南部乡村。小说描写的是一位黑人女子从童年到中年的遭遇中,怎样在感情和性格上获得新生,在经济上获得自立的故事。主人公希莉如同女作家爱丽斯·沃克一样,自幼家境贫寒,从小就饱尝做为黑人女性的痛苦生活。小说是从她十四岁时一封充满稚气、悲伤的给上帝的信开始:“亲爱的上帝,我十四岁了,我一直是个好孩子。也许你能显个灵,告诉我这是怎么回事……”希莉的母亲重病在身,卧床不起,生命垂危,而她本人这时遭到继父残忍蛮横的性摧残,怀上身孕却不明白这是怎么回事,在迷茫、恐
The famous American black woman writer Alice Walker’s masterpiece “Purple” was published in 1982, and then caused a sensation in the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature the following year. With its rather tortuous and complicated but deeply touching story, Purple vividly reveals to the world the major current problem in American society - the long road of self-help for African-American women under the dual discrimination of race and sex. A “purple” narrative story took place in the southern American countryside just before the Second World War. The novel depicts a story of how a black woman, born from her childhood to her middle age, is reborn economically and emotionally. Like the heroine Alice Walker, Heili, the heroine, lived in a poor family since childhood. She grew up as a painful life for black women. The novel begins with a letter full of childishness and sadness to her when she was fourteen: “Dear God, I am fourteen, and I have always been a good boy.May you show your spirit and tell me that it is How else ...... ”Xi Li’s mother seriously ill, bedridden, life is dying, and she was then cruel and cruel sex step by step father, pregnant pregnant but do not understand what is going on in the confused ,fear