英语临床6夏季课件：unit2.ppt

Unit 2 Intoxicated by My Illness by Anatole Broyard;Anatole Paul Broyard (July 16, 1920 – October 11, 1990) an American writer literary critic editor for The New York Times. ;His marriage;Broyard had some stories accepted for publication in the 1940s. He began studying at Brooklyn College before the US entered World War II. When he enlisted in the Army, the armed services were segregated; Broyard was accepted as white, went to officers school, and was promoted to captain. ; After his death, Broyard became the center of controversy and discussions related to how he had chosen to live as an adult in New York. A Louisiana Creole of mixed race, he was criticized by some blacks for passing as white as an adult and failing to acknowledge his African-American ancestry. Multiracial advocates though have cited Broyard as an example of someone forging their own racial identity long before it was acceptable in mainstream America. ;Anatole Broyard wanted to be a writer -- and not just a Negro writer consigned to the back of the literary bus. ----Brent Staples (the writer and editor ) In his terms, he did not want to write about black love, black passion, black suffering, black joy; he wanted to write about love and passion and suffering and joy. ----The historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ;无拘无束的;Thank you!