1、无语的艺术形式爱丽斯沃克的日常生活美学观毕业论文Acknowledgements About this paper, it is necessary to thanks for so many peoples support and it is impossible to finish it without the help of my teachers, friends, family and classmates.First of all, I would like to express my gratitude and thanks to my supervisor Miss Tian.
2、 In this long process of paper writing, she has given me valuable suggestions and encouragement. And she provides me consistent guidance and helps me to research this topic deeply. Without her generous support, this paper would not have been completed smoothly.Besides, I am grateful to the teachers
3、who taught me, such as Associate Professor Shi. Their lectures on the studies have offered me a lot, and I have learned much from them.Next, I would like to give thanks to all my classmates, who have given me much encouragement and support. Without their unselfish help and understanding, my four-yea
4、r study would not have been so successful and meaningful.Finally, my family and my friends have given me continuous love and support, so I want to thank them sincerely.In short, I would like to say thank you for all the teachers, friends and classmates who have given me support during the passed fou
5、r years. Because of their help, I can finish my paper completely, and then I will continue to make efforts to research, so as to realize my dream.AbstractBefore Alice Walker, black womens daily life almost did not enter the critics views and studies. But Alice Walker expressed the great art hidden i
6、n black women s daily life such as sewing quilts, digging herbs, cultivating the garden, etc. She regarded the black women as the special artists and believed that they created a kind of speechless art form. This essay will reveal the speechless art form that is hidden in black womens daily life thr
7、ough the research on daily details of the novel characters Celie, Sophia, Nettie, etc in The Color Purple. The different symbolism meanings of the art in the novel are very important for the expression of the theme. This essay will reveal Alice Walkers daily life aesthetics.Key Words: The Color Purp
8、le; the meanings of symbolism; speechless art form. 摘要在爱丽斯沃克之前，黑人女性的日常生活几乎没有进入批评家的视野与探究，而爱丽丝沃克则最大限度的挖掘了潜藏在黑人女性日常生活中如缝制被褥、挖草药、整治菜园中的伟大艺术。她把黑人女性看成是特殊的艺术家，认为她们在生活中创造了一种“无语的艺术形式”。本文将通过研究紫色中西莉亚、索菲亚、奈蒂、莎格等生活中不同的生活细节来揭示日常生活中这种“无语的艺术形式”的象征意义及对主题的表现。最终本文将揭示爱丽斯沃克的日常生活美学观。 关键字：紫色；象征性意义；无语的艺术形式 Contents1. Intro
9、duction.12. The Creativity Source of “Speechless Art Form” in The Color Purple.22.1 Clothes .32.2 Colors.42.3 Quilting.63. The Aesthetics of the Speechless Art Form in The Color Purple.83.1 The Symbolism of the Daily Life Things.83.2 Pursuit of Love.104.3 The New Image of the Black Women.114. Conclu
10、sion.12Biography.14 Alice Walkers View of “Speechless Art Form” in The Color PurpleI. Introduction.Alice Walker is a very famous Afro-American woman writer. She is one of the most important black woman writers in the contemporary American literature. Her masterpiece The Color Purple causes the criti
11、cs attention due to her new conception and unique techniques. After its publication in 1982, the novel immediately becomes the best seller in the United States. In 1983, it wins both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. In 1984, it is adapted for film by Steven Spielberg. Alice Walker bec
12、omes the first Pulitzer Prize winner among the American black woman writers.Alice Walker is born in Eatonton, Georgia on February 9, 1944. A black child born into poverty, Walker starts her life with many disadvantages. Her family lives as sharecroppers in the Deep South. At the age of eight, Walker
13、 loses eyesight in one of her eyes when an elder brother accidentally shoots her with a BB gun. Her childhood is typical like other women of her time; she often has to confront racism and sexual abuse. Due to the loss of eyesight and scares on her face, Walker soon grows isolated from the rest of he
14、r community, spending most of her time reading and writing about people around her. During this period, she develops a deep bond with her mother and other relatives who inspire her to become an independent black woman. Despite these obstacles, Walker grows up to be quite successful. She graduates at
15、 the top of her high school class and soon graduates from college. Walker lives in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement and is an avid activist for minority and womens rights. In 1983, Walker is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her most famous novel-The Color Purple. Walker will be remembered
16、not only as an award-winning author, but also as a leader for black womens rights.The Color Purple, Alice Walkers third novel, is published in 1982. It deals with black women in the rural South during the first half of the twentieth century. In The Color Purple, Alice Walker portrays the gradual for
17、ming of a new black woman-Celie, who undergoes from the patriarchal oppression to awakening and independence. Celie is violently raped by her stepfather Alfonso many times, but she dares not to say to anybody except God because her stepfather threatens her. Celie has two children but they are taken
18、away immediately by Alfonso when they are born. Later Alfonso marries her to Mr. Albert, who just considers Celie as a tool for sex and housework. As a result, Celie endures a hard and loveless life. Albert even has evil intentions on her sister, Nettie. So Nettie runs away and later is adopted by a
19、 black missionary couple who takes her to Africa. Being illness, Shug Avery, an American-Africa singer also Alberts lover, is brought back to his home. Under the good care of Celie, Shug gradually recovers and establishes a good relationship with Celie. Influenced by Shug, Celie becomes confident an
20、d also learns to appreciate herself. Later, with the help of Shug, she finds that Albert has secretly keeps Netties letter to her for many years. She is so angry that she leaves Albert finally. She gets economic independence by making pants. After Alphonso dies, Celie inherits the house. On the othe
21、r hand, Albert goes down slope after Celie leaves him. After introspection, he transforms to be a good man and becomes friends with Celie. In the end, Celie reunites with her sister and her own children. Celie not only wins her respect, love and dignity, but also establishes a harmonious relationshi
22、p with men. In the novel, Alice Walker expresses the great art that hidden in the black womans daily life such as sewing quits, digging herbs, cultivating the garden, etc. During the creativity, Walker has to challenge all the difficulties and finishes the perfect art of the fiction with rich imagin
23、ation. Women magazine has predicted that the novel would cause a sensation in the United States. (Yang 12) The fact also had proved that The Color Purple bring up many commenters attention. Liu Yuan asserts in “The Color Purple and Alice Walkers Womanism” (2006) that the novel gives a full expressio
24、n of the ideological emotion of womanism and a vivid description of black womens struggle for liberation and equality.(Liu 99) In “The Pattern of Chang in Alice Walker” (2000), Liu Ying argues that the pattern change in Alice Walkers heroines shows her understanding of the process that black woman m
25、ust undergo to achieve their vision. (Liu 112) Zuo Yaqin says in “The Narrative Technique of The Color Purple” (2005) that the novels narrative techniques are helpful to express the authors idea successfully. (Zuo 223) This essay will deals with how to inherit the culture and the tradition of the bl
26、ack women and keep the black womens special. The special form “speechless art form” creates the beautiful sense of the novel successfully and reveals a special “word picture” and “thought pictures” (Gates 118)2. The creativity source of “speechless art form” Alice Walker believes that the black wome
27、n have a special ability to create and keep the beauty art in the daily life. Communication aesthetics can be found in daily ordinary objects in black womens life and consciousness. The poetic beauty hidden in their life is excavated by Alice Walker with her deep understanding for aesthetics. For hu
28、ndred years, they and their mother, grandmother and great-grandmother inherit the countless beautiful true stories. They play an extraordinary imagination in sewing the quilt, weaving the veil, knitting mat and digging herbs.2.1 ClothesIn The Color Purple, the changes in Celies cloth are very signif
29、icant. At first, Celie cant decide what she likes to wear. Because the male-dominated society does not allow women to have their own idea to decide things. She has to meet her stepfathers and husbands requirements. She has no idea about her self-value and her identity. All those clothes imply that s
30、he has no basic right that a person should deserve. She is under the control of her stepfather and husband, and has no idea to rebel against them.In The Color Purple, for women, especially for black women, they are not allowed to wear pants. It is mens privilege. Mr_ tells Cellie that man and woman could not wear the same cloths. Only men have the rights to wear pants. Apparently, men and women are not equal there. On this condition, Celie not only makes pants, but also wears them, which gradually clears up the tradition of mens
