当代美国多民族文学.pptxVIP

1960s and 1970s: civil right movements;The African Americans Native Americans The Asian Americans The Chicano Americans;The Weary Blues The Ways of White Folks Montage of a Dream Deferred;It was a long time ago.I have almost forgotten my dream.But it was there then,In front of me,Bright like a sun--My dream.And then the wall rose,Rose slowly,Slowly,Between me and my dream.Rose until it touched the sky--The wall.Shadow.I am black.I lie down in the shadow.No longer the light of my dream before me,Above me.Only the thick wall.Only the shadow.My hands!My dark hands!Break through the wall!Find my dream!Help me to shatter this darkness,To smash this night,To break this shadowInto a thousand lights of sun,Into a thousand whirling dreamsOf sun! ;Richard Wright ;Ralph Ellison;;The contemporary;Alice Walker;N. Scott Momaday;D’Arcy McNickle;;Maxine Hong Kingston 汤亭亭 ;Amy Tan;The Tiger’s Daughter Wife Jasmine The Holder of the World;Chicano literature: a body of writings by American of Mexican extraction or Mexicans in the United States writing about the Mexican-American experience Themes: assertion of Chicano identity; maintaining their cultural tradition under the pressure of mainstream values and their attempt to fight against assimilation; their existential dilemma of being lost in the grasp of modern society of America and their yearning for love, dignity, justice and expression of self-pride of being Chicano From Mid-1960s thought early 1980s: Chicano Renaissance ;