美国黑人妇女文学的奇葩──评长篇小说《紫颜色》

两度轰动美国的长篇小说《紫颜色》是当代黑人妇女文学的奇葩。它深刻地揭示了美国黑人女性长期遭受的穷人、黑人、女人的三重压迫和造成这种全方位压迫的历史和现实的根源：世界范围的男性中心社会的男尊女卑思想；社会发展不平衡的历史原因；殖民压迫对黑人心理的侵蚀和扭曲。同时指出了自主、自立、自强的妇女解放道路。小说的信件连缀、变化着的叙述和贴合人物个性的语言等也颇具艺术特色。

A WONDERFUL WORK OF ART IN AMERICAN BLACK WOMEN LITERATURE

The novel The Color Purpl, which made two great hits, is a wonderful work of art in American black women literature. The novel exposes the three oppressions on the black women in the United States being the poor, the black, and the female. It also reveals the historical and existing factors that cause the oppression, namely, the thought of female inferiority in the worldwide male-centered society; the historical cause of the unbalance in social development; and the distortion of the black psychology by the colonialist oppression. The novel points out the path of women liberation - independence, self-support, and striving. The novel's quotation of letters, its changing angles in narration, and the aptly-worded dialogues all contribute to its artistic success.