四川师范大学外国语学院美国文学英文课件 unit16.pptVIP

Asian-American literature has usually been presented primarily from the standpoint of “race”—the identity position of Americans of Asian descent in the context of Asian-American immigration histories and legislative struggles against unjust policies and racial violence. Influenced by the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Asian American scholars argue that Asian-American “sensibility” was an American phenomenon different from and unrelated to Asian cultural sources. Memoirs were the favored genre with immigrant and first-generation writers. After Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir The Woman Warrior (1976), much Asian-American writing has also received critical acclaim. By Maxine Hong Kingston Saul Bellow ——Winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature Saul Bellow? ,a?Canadian-born American?writer. In the words of the Swedish?Nobel Committee, his writing exhibited, the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of our culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and tragic episodes in quick succession interspersed with philosophic conversation, all developed by a commentator with a witty tongue and penetrating insight into the outer and inner complications that drive us to act, or prevent us from acting, and that can be called the dilemma of our age.[1] [1].Press Release: The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1976, Swedish Academy Awards the?Pulitzer Prize the?Nobel Prize for Literature the?National Medal of Arts the?National Book Award for Fiction?three times the Foundations lifetime?Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters?in 1990 Works Dangling Man?(1944) The Victim?(1947) The Adventures of Augie March?(1953) —?National Book Award for Fiction Seize the Day?(1956) Henderson the Rain King?(1959) Herzog?(1964) — National Book Award Mr. Sammlers Planet(1970) — National Book Award Humboldts Gift?(1975) — winner of the 1976?Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The Deans December (1982) More Die of Heartbreak?(1987) Works