女性主义始于19世纪30年代,致力于白人女性争取平等权利的女权运动,并对父权制思想提出质疑。20世纪60年代美国民权运动才促进了有色女性的觉醒。爱丽丝·沃克是当代美国重要的黑人女作家,提出了“妇女主义”的理念,积极促进妇女主义思想,并将其广泛应用于文学实践。《紫颜色》这部作品,从一个全新的视角深入黑人女性内心世界,描绘多姿多彩黑人女性形象,剖析了黑人的思想意识及心理状态,揭露了黑人父权制及白人种族主义的罪恶,其间不乏有对传统文化认同与超越的特点,并最终希冀黑人男性与女性达到地位和精神上的平等与和谐统一。 Feminism began in the 1830s with the feminist movement for white women fighting for their equal rights and questioned patriarchy. The civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960s promoted the awakening of colored women. Alice Walker is an important contemporary black woman writer in the United States. She put forward the concept of “womanism” and actively promote the idea of ​​womanism and apply it extensively in literary practice. The work “Purple Color” explores the inner world of black women from a brand new perspective, depict colorful black women’s images, analyze the ideology and psychology of blacks, reveal the evil of black patriarchy and white racism, Have the characteristics of identity and transcendence of traditional culture, and ultimately hope black men and women to achieve the status and spirit of equality and harmony and unity.