Criticism and Deconstruction of Man Chauvinism and Anthropocentrism——Eco-feminism in Alice Walker's The Color Purple

Alice Walker,a famous American feminist writer,is known as the "debater" and "spokesman" of the black women.Her works are very popular among the feminists.Most importantly,her novel,The Color Purple,embodies the rich sense of feminism as well as that of ecology,obscured to many people at present.She tells the heroine's suffering under patriarchal oppression and slavery,and the difficult process of her obtaining independence finally.Meanwhile,the novel tells the reader that in modern civilized society patriarchal male's mistreatment of female and man's mistreatment of nature can be traced back to the same ideological roots.By means of the analysis of the destruction of nature and the oppression of woman,the novel supplies the reader with the probability to read and appreciate it in the light of eco-feminism.