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高级英语第二册第十二课学习辅导资料
1 “It is a complex fate to be an American,” Henry James observed, and the
principal discovery an American writer makes in Europe is just how complex this fate
is.America’s history, her aspirations, her peculiar triumphs, her even more peculiar
defeats, and her position in the world ?yesterday and today ?are all so profoundly and
stubbornly unique that the very word 揂merica?remains a new, almost complet ely
undefined and extremely controversial proper noun. No one in the world seems to
know exactly what it describes, not even we motley millions who call ourselves Americans.
2 I left America because I doubted my ability to survive the fury of the color
problem here. (Sometimes I still do.) I wanted to prevent myself from becoming
merely a Negro; or even, merely a Negro writer. I wanted to find out in what way the
specialness of my experience could be made to connect me with other people instead
of dividing me from them. (I was as isolated from Negroes as I was from whites, which
is what happens when a Negro begins, at bottom, to believe what white people say about him.)
3 In my necessity to find the terms on which my experience could be related to
that of others, Negroes and whites, writers and non-writers, I proved, to my
astonishment, to be as American as any Texas G. I. And I found my experience was
shared by every American writer I knew in Paris. Like me, they had been divorced from
their origins, and it turned out to make very little difference that the origins of white
Americans were European and mine were African ?they were no more at home in
Europe than I was.
4 The fact that I was the son of a slave and they were the sons of free men meant
less, by the time we confronted each other on Europe soil, than the fact that we were
both searching for our separate identities. When we had found these, we seemed to be
saying, why, then, we would no longer need to cling to the shame and bitterness which
had divided us so long.
5 It became te
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