The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

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The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American

James Baldwin

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Background Knowledge

Author: James Baldwin(鲍德温)

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James Baldwin(1924--1987), American negro writer, born in Harlem, much of his life in New York City, ten years in Europe, one of the great novelists and essayists of America

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James Baldwin novels

on sexual and personal identity sharp essays on civil-rights struggle

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向苍天呼吁

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土生子的笔记

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没有人知道我 的名字

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下一次烈火

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街头无名

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假如比尔能说话

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Text Analysis expository说明性writing Baldwin discovers: 1. The American are different from the European. 2. It is a complex fate to be an American.

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Text Analysis

3. All Americans white or black, loved their country and were not at home in Europe. 4. Americans knew more about each other than any European ever could.

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5. Europe was part of their identity and part of their inheritance.

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Detailed study of the text

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Para. 1 Henry James

(1843--1916), American novelist and critic, master of psychological novel,

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Para. 1 Henry James one

of the most distinctive prose stylists in English, one of the writers who laid the foundations of modern "stream of consciousness" fiction