美国文学史

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Formally, the book is noted for a number of things of which its symbolism and its use of language merit attention.The "ghost" in the title is symbolic all through the book . • Another thing to note about The Women Worrior is its unique style of writting. Its sentences are often short and elliptical and read like Chinese translations.
The introduction of Asian American Literature (1)
如今，美国亚裔文学已经分支为华裔美国 文学，日裔美国文学，印裔美国文学，韩裔美 国恩学和菲律宾裔美国文学。这些亚裔美国人 将自己国家不同的文化和历史背景融入他们的 作品中，使得亚裔美国文学呈现出多样化的特 点。亚裔美国文学可以追朔到20世纪初期更早。
Introduction of Love Medicine(2)
It begins with the death of June ,Marie Lazarre Kashpaw's adopted daughter, in a freezing snowstorm and ends with June's son bringing her spirit home from the wilderness. Of the first generation Margaret Kashpaw is the one that Love Medicine tells about some details about. Of the next generation June Morrissey Kasphaw stand out not as a corporeal presence,but as of a metonymic in the novel. With regard to still the next generation ,there is Albertine Johnson, Marie's granddaughter.
The introduction of Asian American Literature （2）
Asian Americn literature began to make its presence felt as a category in the mid-1970s when the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s generated a spirit of ethnic nationlism among the various minority groups in the United States. The Immigration Reform Act of 1965 , made the culture milieu more conductive to the further development of Asian American writing.
Major works
Love Medicine ---《爱之药》---1984 The Beet Queen---《甜莱皇后》---1986 Tracks---《踪迹》---1998 The Bingo Palace---《宾果宫》---1994 Tales of Burning Love---《燃烧的爱情 故事》---1996 The Antelope Wife---《羚羊妻子》--1998
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Tan has written several other bestselling novels, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter's Daughter and Saving Fish from Drowning. She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. • In addition to these, Tan has written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994), which was turned into an animated series which aired on PBS. • She also appeared on PBS in a short spot encouraging children to write. Tan is also in a band with several other well-known writers, the Rock Bottom Remainders.
Asian American Literature
亚裔文学
The introduction of Asian American Literature (1)
Now Asian American literture as a category breaks down into subdivisions such as Chinese American,Japanese American, Indian American Korean American and Filipino American . As these Asian Americans have different cultures and historical backgrounds to fall back to in their writings, Asian American literature can date back to the first years of the twentieth century or even earlier.
Introduction of Love Medicine(1)
This is a story of love and forgiveness between Native American families, which overseas half a century of four generations' hiatories of survival. Although the larger mainastream social background looms manacing and evil, the book concentrates on the vicissitudes of Native American life working itself out within its own fame of reference.
Maxine Hong Kin源自ston--汤婷婷• 1940—)(Born October 27,1940 is a Chinese American writer. She is the first of six children born to a laudry house owner in Stockton, California. She is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of Califonia, Berkeley where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962.
The introduction of Asian American Literature （2）
亚裔美国文学开始成为一个独立的文学类别 出现在20世纪70年代中期，60年代的民权运动 极大地鼓舞了美国少数民族的民族主义精神。 此后，“种族化”便成为了大学的一门课程， 并且针对亚裔美国人的学术研究也随之出现。 1956年的《移民改革法》使接受过良好教育的 移民将他们的文化背景更多的运用到了亚裔美 国得文学发展中来。
从形式上看，这本书以象征主义手法和 引人注意的语言运用而著称。题目中的 “鬼怪”在通篇起到了象征的作用。小说 的另一个值得注意的地方是它的写作方式， 小说的语言简明扼要，读起来就像是中文 翻译版。小说还具有诗歌的感觉，给读者 以想象的余地。
Amy Tan ---谭恩美
• Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore motherdaughter relationships. Her best-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages. In 1993, the book was adapted into a commercially successful film.
Plot Summary
• • • • • • 1 No Name Wmen 无名女子 2 White Tigers 白虎山学道 3 Shaman 萨满\乡村医生 4 At the Western Palace 西门宫外 5 A Song For a Barbarian Reed Pipe 羌笛野曲
Her first novel ,Love Medicine ,came out in 1984 which established her place as a major american writer .The novel was expanded in 1993 with 5 new stories added to the first edition. She is a prolific writer. Sha has also produced some volumes of poetry and works of nonfiction. In all her works ,Erdrich focuses on the feature of her Ojibwa Indian inheritance , but she is too sensitive to huan nature to lose sight of their universal significance.