爱丽丝·沃克是20世纪70年代美国女性主义文学的代表,她被称作黑人女权主义的代言人。她的小说以描写生活在美国社会最底层以及全世界黑人妇女的悲惨命运为主要内容。在小说中塑造了多种女性形象,这些形象有别于传统文学中塑造的自卑、丑陋的固化形象。在沃克的笔下,黑人女性从单纯、愚昧逐渐转变为追求独立价值与自我人格,不仅摆脱被压迫、被剥削,而且在精神上实现自我解放。 Alice Walker is a representative of American feminist literature in the 1970s, and she is described as the spokesperson of black feminism. Her novel focuses on depicting the tragic fate of black women living at the lowest levels of American society and of women throughout the world. In the novel, a variety of female images are shaped. These images are different from the inferiority complex and ugly solidification image built in traditional literature. In the writings of Walker, black women gradually transformed from simplicity and ignorance into the pursuit of independent values ​​and self-personality. They not only get rid of oppression, exploitation, but also spiritual self-liberation.