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1、关注豆丁网 2893 你懂的核准通过 归档资 料 未经允许 请勿外 传 本科生毕业论文本科生毕业论文 题 目 The Emancipation Progress of Celie i n The Color Purple A Womanism Perspective 9JWKffwvG tYM Jg 黑人妇女 压迫 解放 AbstractAbstract This thesis examines the protagonist s emancipation process from womanism perspective in Alice Walker s novel The Color P
2、urple Walker does not limit herself in describing the sufferings of African American women but suggests to all women a path to follow in order to free themselves from the evils of patriarchy and sexism The black women suffer double oppressions of sexism and racism from both the black men and the whi
3、te people Celie the protagonist rebuild her belief and free herself physically spiritually and economically Their ways to liberation also formslots of elements of Alice Walker s womanism which is defined as black feminism or feminism of the color The thesis is divided into three chapters In the firs
4、t chapter womanism is interpreted as the theoretical basis of the thesis In the second chapter the thesis focuses on the double oppressions on the black women The third chapter is about the sisterhood relationship with Nettie Sofia and Shug who are the key elements in this emancipation process and t
5、he black woman s fighting back to achieve her liberation KeyKey Words Words womanism black women oppression emancipation ContentsContents 摘摘 要要 i AbstractAbstract ii IntroductionIntroduction 1 Chapter1Chapter1 FeminismFeminism andand WomanismWomanism 3 1 1 The Background of Womanism Feminism in Amer
6、ica 3 1 1 1 The First Wave of American Feminism 1840s to 1920s 3 1 1 2 The Second Wave of American Feminism 1960s 4 1 2 Walker s Definition of Womanism 7 Chapter2Chapter2 DoubleDouble OppressionOppression onon thethe BlackBlack WomenWomen inin TheThe ColorColor PurplePurple 1 5 2 1 As Women Sexual a
7、nd Violent Oppression from the Black Men 15 2 2 As Black People Racial Oppression from the White People 19 ChapterChapter 3 3 BlackBlack Women sWomen s ApproachApproach toto EmancipationEmancipation 23 3 1 Sisterhood and Its Role in Celie s Emancipation Process 23 3 1 1 The Role of Nettie 23 3 1 2 T
8、he Role of Sofia 24 3 1 3 The Role of Shug 26 3 2 The Road of Emancipation 27 3 2 1 Physical and Sexual Freedom 27 3 2 2 Spiritual Freedom 29 3 2 3 Economic Freedom 31 ConclusionConclusion 33 BibliographyBibliography 36 AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements IntroductionIntroduction Throughout the ages wo
9、men have always been part of literature They have inspired many writers whether dramatists novelists poets or essayists Unfortunately most works often depicted women as the inferior gender a passive object that could not survive on its own and that could do nothing for itself Women in literature cou
10、ld only exist through the eyes minds and lives of men but never for themselves Many of Walker s works are inseparable from her life experience She is very proud of her origins and she believes that the grace with which we embrace life in spite of pain the sorrow is always measure of what has gone be
11、fore She was born in Eatonton Georgia on February 9 1944 Her father was a sharecropper and she is the youngest of the eight children in her family At the age of eight Walker was accidentally injured by a BB gun shot to her eye by her brother Then she set out to learn to write poetry in order to ease
12、 the loneliness Alice Walker s epistolary novel The Color Purple is one of the best literary works that vividly depict the sufferings of African American women from patriarchy sexism and racism The Color Purple does not only describe but goes beyond that purpose In fact Alice Walker s true intention
13、 from writing this novel is not only to give voice to black women but also to provide them with a path to follow in order to emancipate themselves and get their freedom Walker shows us the evolution of her major character Celie from being a sexually abused child to a passive wife and finally to an e
14、mancipated woman ChapterChapter 1 1 FeminismFeminism andand WomanismWomanism 1 11 1 TheThe BackgroundBackground ofof Womanism Womanism FeminismFeminism inin AmericaAmerica Feminism in America has a long history and it is not an invention of a singleperiod of time Here this thesis just focuses on the
15、 19th and the 20th centuries to give a very general account of American feminism from the perspective of history time and different types of schools 1 1 11 1 1 TheThe FirstFirst WaveWave ofof AmericanAmerican Feminism Feminism 1840s1840s toto 1920s1920s In 1848 the first Women s Rights Convention or
16、ganized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other women who had been denied a place at the international anti slavery convention in London in 1840 was held in Seneca Falls which marked the beginning of the first wave of American Feminism The convention passed the Declaration of Sentiments which was primarily drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton We hold these truths to be self evident that all men and women are created equal The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the p
