吴定柏《美国文学大纲》(第2版)(章节题库 黑人文学)【圣才出品】

第14章黑人文学

Ⅰ.Fill in the blanks.

1.Toni Morrison is best known for her fifth novel______,which is based on the true story of a slave mother killing her own children just for them to avoid slavery.【答案】Beloved

【解析】《宠儿》是莫里森最为著名的作品，是根据内战前一个真实的故事而作。一个奴隶母亲，玛格丽特·加纳，杀死自己的孩子以免他们沦为奴隶，“宠儿”是她在孩子墓碑上刻的文字。

2.______is the second American woman writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.She is no doubt the best and most representative of the contemporary African American writers.

【答案】Toni Morrison

【解析】托妮·莫里森是第二位获得诺贝尔文学奖的美国女作家。

3.The publication of______established Toni Morrison’s place in contemporary

American literature.Winner of the National Book Critics’Circle Award,the novel is seen as another milestone in African American literature after Native son and Invisible Man.

【答案】Song of Solomon

【解析】《所罗门之歌》的发表奠定了莫里森在当代美国文坛的地位。这部小说被看作是继

《土生子》和《看不见的人》之后非裔美国文学的又一里程碑。它讲述了一个美国黑人试图寻祖归根的故事。

4.Write down the name of the author of The Bluest Eye.______（厦门大学2011研）【答案】Toni Morrison

【解析】《最蓝的眼睛》是托妮·莫里森的成名作，她是第一个获诺贝尔文学奖的美国非裔黑人女作家。

5.Author______Title______（南京大学2008研）

I used to wonder

About here and there—

I think the distance

Is nowhere

【答案】Langston Hughes;Border Line

【解析】题目节选自Langston Hughes的Border Line（《边缘线》）。

Ⅱ.Multiple Choice

1.Toni Morrison’s first novel______came out in1970.It deals with a young black girl who wishes to have a pair of big and beautiful eyes but is raped by her own father and is finally driven to,insanity.

A.Paradise

B.The Bluest Eye

C.Playing in the Dark:Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

D.Tar Baby

【答案】B

【解析】托妮·莫里森的第一部小说The Bluest Eye（《最蓝的眼睛》）发表于1970年，故事讲述了一个黑人小女孩渴望得到一双白人那样的蓝眼睛，经过日夜祈求上帝，最后居然夙愿得偿，真的有了一双美丽的蓝眼睛，却终于发现自己仍然无法摆脱悲惨的命运。

2.Which of the following novels is NOT written by Toni Morrison?

A.Paradise

B.A Mercy

C.Beloved

D.The Crown of Columbus

【答案】D

【解析】D项The Crown of Columbus（《哥伦布的王冠》）是路易丝·厄德里克的作品，其余三项Paradise（《天堂》），A Mercy（《恩惠》），Beloved（《宠儿》）都是托妮·莫里森的作品。

Ⅲ.Explain the following term.

Harlem Renaissance（北外2009研；北师大2007研；南开大学2007研）

Key:The Harlem Renaissance refers to the flowering of African American cultural and intellectual life during the1920s and1930s.At the time,it was known as the “New Negro Movement”,named after the1925anthology The New Negro

edited by Alain Locke.Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City,the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States.Challenging white paternalism and racism,African-American artists and intellectuals rejected imitating the styles of Europeans and white Americans and instead celebrated black dignity and creativity.

Ⅳ.Essay questions

1.Discuss one significant Jewish writer or Black writer in American literature.（大连外国语学院2007研）

Key:Toni Morrison is a great contemporary American writer,who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in1993,the first African American writer who won this prize.

Toni Morrison is known for“magical realism”in that she uses magic, folktales,and the supernatural in her novels.Her style combines unrealistic (supernatural)dements with a realistic presentation of life and characters.

For Morrison,“all good art has been political”and the Black artist has a responsibility to the Black community.She aims at capturing“the something”that defines what makes a book“Black.”All her fictions bear witness to the experience of the Black community.Sense of loss,roots,community,and identity of the Blacks are usual themes of her works.In her works Toni Morrison has explored the experience and roles of black women in a racist and male dominated society.In the center of her complex and multilayered narratives is the unique cultural inheritance of African-Americans.