| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 英國語文學系 === 86 === Being a black female writer profoundly concerned with the plight
of black women, Alice Walker sensitively exposes the impact of
sexism and racism onblack women in her novel The Color Purple,
with a view to making the world aware of sexual and racial
inequality and finding a voice that belongs to black women. The
present study proposes to investigate how Walker subverts both
literary and social conventions in her novel and to present
herunwavering resolution to affirm the existence of all black
women. The first chapter examines the epistolary form in the
novel, with a detailed analysis of its relationship with the
thematic messages of the novel, and discusses how the point of
view in the novel reinforces the thematic concerns. ChapterII
deals with gender issue and the structure of relationships among
the femalecharacters, focusing on female bonding, followed by a
discussion of Walker's literary subversion of the European
Cinderella Myth in the novel and femalecreativity, chiefly
sewing. Chapter III explores how patriarchy and racism lead to
black female silence and pose a threat to the formation of self-
identity, and analyzes the use of language and the significance
of the title of the book and the ending. Affirmatively, Walker
succeeds in The Color Purplein portraying her female
protagonist's development from a silenced woman to arebellious
one and in asserting female influence through literature.
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