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- Title
Reading The Color Purple from the Perspective of Ecofeminism.
- Authors
Lianghong Wu
- Abstract
Alice Waker is one of the most influential black female writers in modern America. The summit of her literary achievements, The Color Purple, wins her three awards since its publication and becomes a milestone in the black literature. This paper sums up the three stages of the relationship between human, women in particular, and nature---fragmentation, over-sewing and wholeness. In this novel, Walker attempts to arouse black women's self-consciousness by showing the fragmentation state of black women and nature under oppressions. She looks for ways of oversewing the broken souls to realize the wholeness of survival. Advocating people to attach importance to the problems of women and environment, Walker expresses her ecofeminist consciousness to establish a harmonious society where human and nature, men and women could co-existent peacefully.
- Subjects
ECOFEMINISM in literature; BLACK literature; WRITING achievement (Handwriting); SELF-consciousness (Awareness); OPPRESSION
- Publication
Theory & Practice in Language Studies (TPLS), 2019, Vol 9, Issue 8, p965
- ISSN
1799-2591
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17507/tpls.0908.11