文档介绍：华侨大学
硕士学位论文
从妇女主义角度解读艾丽斯·沃克小说中的父亲形象
姓名:吴莹莹
申请学位级别:硕士
专业:英语语言文学
指导教师:杜志卿
20080501
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Abstract
As the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker
is a prolific writer with brilliant achievements in her novels, essays and poetry. Walker,
by addressing herslf a Womanist writer, has never failed to show her concern for the
male life, especially the father images, which are important roles in her novels. In the
white supremacist patriarchy, the father plays a decisive role in society and in the
family. For a black father, however, in the white dominated society, he cannot fulfill
his social role according to the patriarchal code. So he vents his anger and frustration
on his family members, which leads to the destruction of the relationship between the
husband and the wife and of the relationship between the father and the children.
Consequently it would endanger the existence of the black people as a whole.
In order to have a clear view of the images of father in Walker’s novels, the thesis
studies her three different texts representing different times respectively: The Third
Life of Grange Copeland (1970), The Color Purple (1982) and By The Light of My
Father’s Smile (1998). In these novels, we find that the images of father change over
the time, while their importance in the family remains the same.
Walker is always concerned with the relationship between father and children. The
thesis, from Walker’s Womanist perspective, attempts to analyze the images of father
in the three novels by studying the relationship between father and his white lord, the
relationship between husband and wife, and the relationship between father