作为一名荣膺普利策奖、美国国家图书奖和全国书评家协会奖等多项殊荣的优秀女作家,艾丽斯·沃克的文学生涯始终是萦绕在一片光明之中的。而她本人特殊的黑人女性作家身份,也让女权主义运动和黑人民权运动成为她一生为之奋斗的目标。她的小说不仅体现了艾丽斯作为一名作家的社会责任感,同样也展现了黑人族群与占据强势地位的白人文化之间巨大的鸿沟。当然,文化的冲突并非总是以较为激烈的形式展现出来,它也可以在生活的细节中得到体现。因此,我们对于文化冲突的理解不应是狭隘的,而是要 Alice Walker’s literary career has always been lingering in the air as an outstanding woman writer who won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Association Award. The identity of her own unique black female writer has also made the feminist movement and the black civil rights movement the goal of her struggle for life. Her novel not only reflects Alice’s sense of social responsibility as a writer, but also shows the huge gap between black ethnic groups and the dominant white culture. Of course, cultural conflicts are not always shown in a more intense form. They can also be reflected in the details of life. Therefore, our understanding of cultural conflicts should not be narrow-minded, but necessary