美国文学-Mark-Twain.ppt

Ultimate aim to create the illusion of an indigenous little world with qualities that tell it apart from the world outside. General Features of Local colorism A tendency to glorify and idealize and have a nostalgic feeling to the past Minutely accurate descriptions of the life of the regions and truthful depiction of the common people. Some representative local colorists Bret Harte (1836—1902), the first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity. The Luck of Roaring Camp, Tennessees Partner Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Folks, Uncle Toms Cabin Hamlin Garland , Main-Traveled Roads Sarah Orne Jewett, Deephaven Kate Chopin, The Awakening Mark Twain Characters Huckleberry Finn Jim Tom Sawyer The duke and the dauphin Widow Douglas and Miss Watson Pap Silas and Sally Phelps Aunt Polly Bildungsroman / A novel of initiation The development of Huck from adolescence to maturity: Step 1: Huck starts by believing that Blacks are by nature lower than whites. Step 2: Huck’s inner struggle between his sense of guilt in helping Jim to escape and his belief that Jim is a human being. Step 3: Huck accepts Jim not merely as a human being but also a loyal friend. Themes Freedom Friendship Maturation and Development Hypocrisy of “civilized” society vs. the innocence of Nature Love Racism and slavery Symbols The Mississippi River The raft Writing Features and Styles Humor and satire Local color A master of language First person narration Chapter 9 Local Colorism·Mark Twain · · Local Colorism Time: from the late 1860s and early 1870s to the turn of the 20th century. “The Luck of Roaring Camp” by Bret Harte in 1868 marked a significant development in the history of local color fiction. Definition Hamlin Garland defined local colorism as having “such quality of texture and background that it could not have been written in any other place or by anyone else than a native.” [p.130] Climate for its appearance Socially: westward movement; marked difference in different