高级英语课件第二册第十二课The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American.ppt

《高级英语》 精品课程  第二册 制作人： 徐李洁 Unit Twelve The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American --James Baldwin Teaching Aims 1) To familiarize students with the race problem of USA. 2) To enable students to appreciate the writing style of the text. James Baldwin　 -- a leading Negro novelist and essayist in the 50’s； -- a major spokesman for his race in the civil rights movement of the 60’ Baldwin grew up in poverty in Harlem. After high school he began a restless period of ill-paid jobs, self-study, and literary apprenticeship in New York City. Disgusted with Americas racial injustice, he left in 1948 for Paris, where he lived in poverty for eight years, during which he wrote the essay collection Notes of a Native Son (1955) and his second novel, Giovannis Room (1956), which dealt explicitly with homosexuality. After 1969 he divided his time between the south of France, New York, and New England. In 1957 Baldwin became an active participant in the civil-rights struggle. A book of essays, Nobody Knows My Name (1961), explores black-white relations, a theme also central to his novel Another Country (1962). In the impassioned The Fire Next Time (1963), perhaps his most powerful civil-rights statement, he said that blacks and whites must come to terms with the past and make a future together or face destruction. Baldwins later works include the bitter play about racist oppression Blues for Mister Charlie (produced 1964), the story collection Going to Meet the Man (1965), the novel Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone (1968), and the essay collection No Name in the Street (1972). Ranked with Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison as a spokesman for his generation of black writers, he has been acknowledged for his support and inspiration by such figures as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Amiri Baraka. Works by James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) The Amen Corner (play, 1965) Notes of a Native Son (195