艾丽斯·沃克是著名的非洲裔女性小说家、批评家以及散文家,她的小说《紫色》为她带来了至高的荣誉,使她获得了美国普利策奖,从此她扬名美国文坛。和世界上其他女权主义者相同,她一直在为黑人妇女的权益而努力,希望美国的黑人妇女能够在男权社会中占据一席之地。艾丽斯·沃克早在她的批评性散文集《寻找母亲的花园》中就开始关注黑人女性——美国社会的边缘群体,在这本书的扉页上她写道:“妇女主义,即献身于所有人民的,包括男人与女 Alice Walker is a well-known African-American female novelist, critic and essayist. Her novel ”Purple“ brought her the highest honor and earned her the Pulitzer Prize in the United States. Since then, she has become famous in American literature . Like other feminists in the world, she has been working for the rights and interests of black women and hopes black women in the United States will have a place in the patriarchal society. As Alice Walker began to focus on the black woman, the marginalized community of American society, in her critical essay collection ”Looking for Mother’s Garden,“ on the title page of the book she wrote: ”Women’s doctrine, Dedication to all peoples, including men and women