《现代大学英语精读5 Lesson 7 Invisible man》.ppt

1914: born on March 1 in Oklahoma? City 1933-36: wins scholarship attends Alabamas Tuskegee Institute 1936: moves to New York? 1938: hired by Federal Writers Project to research oral history 1942: becomes managing editor of Negro Quarterly? 1945: awarded Rosenwald Fellowship to write novel? 1952: Invisible Man?? 1958-61: teaches Russian American literature at Bards College? ? 1964: Shadow and Act 1986: Going to theTerritory?? 1994: at the age of 80,dies of pancreatic cancer on April 16?? Careers/Jobs waiter? freelance photographer file clerk receptionist musician book reviewer U.S. Merchant Mariner editor for Negro Quarterly college professor writer I have always read a lot, and I began to realize I had a certain talent for it. It was not easy to be the kind of musician I wanted to be: I did not have enough money to go to Juilliard [school of music]. So I stuck with what I had.” One day I wrote, I am an invisible man.’ I did not know what those words represented at the start, and I had no thought about what gave me the idea. Invisible Man (1952) Shadow and Act (1964) Going to the Territory (1986) Flying Home: And Other Stories is published (after being discovered in his home)??（1996） National Book Award for Fiction Best Novel winner (1953) : The Invisible Man published in1952 The book won the National Book Award, a high and rare honor for a first novel. changed the way white Americans thought about black Americans changed the way black Americans thought about themselves I am an invisible man … I am a man of substance, flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind.? I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me…When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination – indeed, everything and anything except me.” many American writers were influenced by Ellison Gettysburg Address Ecclesiates Joseph Conrad Fyodor Dostoevski Wil