《文学批评案例》PPT课件

Cultural criticism is a kind of theory that research the particularity of the material culture and the literature creative theory within the framework of material culture.
American Multiculturalism
African American Writers Latina Writers American Indian Literature Asian American Writers
Society in that era
Nearly all the African American students attended segregated school Interracial marriage was still illegal.
Cultual Studies
British Cultural Materialism
Cultural materialism was first put forward by Raymond Williams. He is a famous cultural theory and literature critics.
African American writers
Plillips Wheatiy--- the first vital black poet in 18th century Toni Morrison---experimental novelist in 20th century Ralph Ellison---Shadow and Act
Invisible Man
The story begins with a terrifying experience of the hero's high school days, moves quickly to the campus of a Southern Negro college and then to New York's Harlem, where most of the action takes place. The many people that the hero meets in the course of his wanderings are remarkably various, complex and significant
Cultural materialism usually analyze the literature from its formation, such as signs and notations, convention, genres and forms.
The main character is to reflect the material history such as the social relationship and the right structure.
It emphasis on the interactive relationship between literature
Oliver Twist, also known as The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by
English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin, naively unaware of their unlawful activities.
Literuture of African American Writings
Double consciousness A Chosen People
Invisible Man
Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen
Invisible man's statue
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