An Interpretation of The Color Purple from the Perspective of Foucault's Power Theory

摘要

Afro-American writer Alice Walker is one of most influential black women writers in the American literary world of the twentieth century.She has long time focused on the living conditions of the black,especially black females under the ethnic context.Through Foucault’s power theory,the operating mechanism of power the in The Color Purple can be clearly elaborated.On the one hand,patriarchal disciplinary power sets numerous restrictions on individuals for the purpose of producing docile bodies.On the oth⁃er hand,the disciplined individuals take the body as a site of protest against disciplinary power,so as to construct their own dis⁃course,free themselves from the marginalized living status and realize the promise of reconciliation between sexes and races.