美国文学(卫昌)教材课程.ppt

* Multiethnic Literature 卫昌 Langston Hughes Richard Wright DArcy McNickle Basic Information Life Experiences Honors and Awards · 1926: Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize. · 1954: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. · 1960: the NAACP awarded Hughes the Spingarn Medal · 1961: National Institute of Arts and Letters. · 1963: Howard University awarded Hughes an honorary doctorate. · 1964: Western Reserve University awarded Hughes an honorary Litt.D. · 2002: Molefi Kete Asante listed Langston Hughes on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. Works poetry Collections: The Weary Blues, 1926 Fine Clothes to the Jew, 1927 Let America Be America Again, 1938 Montage of a Dream Deferred, 1951 The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times, 1967 The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, 1994 Works Novels and short story collections: Not Without Laughter. 1930 The Ways of White Folks. 1934 Simple Speaks His Mind. 1950 Sweet Flypaper of Life, 1955 Simples Uncle Sam. 1965 Works Non-fiction books: The Big Sea. 1940 Famous American Negroes. 1954 I Wonder as I Wander. 1956 Famous Negro Heroes of America. 1958 Fight for Freedom: The Story of the NAACP. 1962 The Negro Speaks of River 1.After his graduation from high school, his mother wanted him to work to support his family, but his divorced fther wanted him to continue his education 2.He decided to visit his father 3.He saw Missippi rushiing forward on the ttain to Mexico. 4.He thought a lot and finished the poem in 10 minutes. The Negro Speaks of River Ive known rivers： Ive known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans， and Ive seen its muddy bossom turn all golden in the sunset. Ive known r