1.Brief Introduction of Author
Toni Morrison
African-American female writer
Her novels particularly focused
on racial & gender issues of black
women
Wrote The Bluest Eye based on her
‘real life experience’
Main Characters
Pecola Breedlove
A poor, black girl eager to have white skin and blue eyes.
She becomes insane at the end of the novel
Claudia Ma
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
Muddy water->gold
: The change may represent the improved status of
AfricanAmericans after the Civil War.
Personification: “the singing of the Mississippi,”
“muddy bosom,”
“Dusky rivers”
The final line reaf
literature that draw upon Western classical art and culture (usually that of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome). These movements were dominant during the mid 18th to the end of the 19th century.
Pseudo Classicism- another name of neoclassicism given by Romanticists for its following only formality.
Features of Neoclassicism literature
Ideals of order, logic, restraint, accuracy, correctness,
Globalization
1983년 미국에서 등장한 용어
정치, 경제, 문화 등 사회의 여러 분야에서 국가 간 교류가 증대하여 개인과 사회집단이 갈수록 하나의 세계 안에서 삶을 영위해 가는 과정
기업의 단순한 다국적 기업의 측면에서 확대되어 생산과 유통 등에서 규모의 경제, 국가 간 경제통합화 등의 현
Ⅰ.Multiculturalism in America
1. Multiculture in America
What is Multiculturalism?
19th C- America experienced massive immigration.
The United States has just one culture
→ The culture of variety
To know how many individual cultures exists in America, is to know how many exists in the world.
The United States of America thrives on diversity.
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