本单元具体教学内容、教学基本要求、单元重点与难点

第16次课：多民族文学：族裔文学

1.教学内容

Jewish Literature

I. Definition

II. Historical Background

III. Emergence: after WWII

IV. Jewish Point of View

 Black American Literature

I. Overview

Negro – coloured (legally free) – black (after civil rights movement)

1. oral tradition

2. written literature (from 1760s)

II. Richard Wright

III. Ralph Ellison

IV. James Baldwin

V. Alice Walker

VI. Toni Morrison

1. life

2. works

3. themes: love, guilt, history, individual, gender, race, religion

4. purpose:

5. style – many kinds of factors: naturalism, realism, fantasy, reality, magical realism

American Chinese literature:

 

Close Reading:

1. Langston Hughes : Negro speaks of river

2. Toni Morrison: Beloved

3. Huang Zhelun: Mr. Butterfly

 

American Multi-ethnic Literature:  Embodiment of diversity of American culture,

 

2. 教学基本要求

1)To make students acquire an overview knowledge of Jewish literature, black literature and oversea Chinese literature, representative writers and their works.

2)To develop students’ understanding of the black renaissance.

3)To improve students’ abilities to interpret and appreciate the literary works of black literature and oversea Chinese literature.

4)To improve students’ competence of exploring unique feature and common themes in multi-ethic literature.

5)To improve students’ critical thinking on literary representation of racial, gender, religious problem in Multi-ethnic writings.

 

3. 单元重点、难点 

重点

1.Black Renaissance

2.Appreciation of Toni Morrison’s novel the Beloved, Langston Hughes poem

3.Appreciation of Oversea Chinese Huang Zhelun’s play Mr. Butterfly.

难点

1.The presentation of the suffering, race in Multi-ethinic literature

2.Theme of seeking self identity in Multi-ethnic literature.

I. Overview

Negro – coloured (legally free) – black (after civil rights movement)

1. oral tradition

(1) songs and ballads

(2) spirituals: sorrow of the singers’ earlier condition and longing for freedom

(3) blues: after civil war, derived from work songs – loneliness, separation, losses, wonderings, love, desperation, sense of doom

(4) jazz: after WWI, developed from blues, died out in the Great Depression

2. written literature (from 1760s)

(1) poetry: religious, enduring, patient to the white

(2) slave narrative: autobiographical experience of the person

(3) 1920s: Harlem Renaissance – New York, black – black dialect and black folklore – “the new negro” – representatives: Langston Hughes (“black poet laureate”), Huston, Claude McKay

(4) 1940s: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison

(5) 50s~60s: a lot of black writers emerged in the civil rights movement: James Baldwin, Brooks, Jones

(6) 70s~80s: publishing of “Root” (Alex Haley), Walker – “The Colour Purple”, Morrison (the second woman writer and the only black who won Nobel Prize)