IntroductiontoAmericanLiterature.ppt

?Adam Gopnik considers The Catcher in the Rye one of the three perfect books in American literature, along with?Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?andThe Great Gatsby. John Updike (1932-- ) Rabbit tetralogy: Rabbit Run; 《 兔子跑吧》 Rabbit Redux; 《 兔子回来了》Rabbit Is Rich; 《兔子富了》Rabbit at Rest《兔子安息了》 Rabbit Run depicts five months in the life of a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry Angstrom, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life earns him the nickname Rabbit. Black Movement Influential Black Writers After the WWII Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) Invisible Man 《隐形人》 The novel addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-American identity. It has a universality of theme (the difficult problem of all modern people to seek for personal identity), not just the regional dilemma of existence for the blacks. James Baldwin (1924-1987) Go Tell It on the Mountain 《向苍天呼吁》Nobody Knows My name 《没有人知道我的名字》 Baldwin calls for the blacks to resort to means including force so as to bring about the nation’s self-realization. He saw love and understanding as difficult but necessary way to overcome racial conflict. Alice Walker The Color Purple 《紫颜色》is about life of African American women’s life. It is an epistolary novel, written in the form of letters. Toni Morrison Song of Solomon《所罗门之歌》 the best black novel after Native Son and Invisible Man. She is the only black who won Nobel Prize. Her purpose is to empower the black people to act for themselves, to recognize for their own world, own history, and own reality. Toni Morrison (1931-), born named Chloe Anthony, first American black writer to win Nobel Prize in Literature (1993). She has used her poetic, magical prose to prove her contention that if you study the culture and art of African Americans you are not studying a regional or minor culture. What are you studying is America. Her Representative Masterpieces The Bluest Eye (1970) Sula (1973) Song of Solomon (1977) Beloved (