Everyday use高级英语讲义 祖母的日常用品

Lesson IV,Everyday Use for Your Grandmama,Alice Walker,About the author,Everyday Use for your grandmama,Alice Walker,I. Background Information-Alice Walker,Background Information,The author wrote quite a number of novels, among them were The Color Purple which won the Pulitzer Prize of Fiction （普利策小说奖） and The American Book Award（美国图书奖）. In 1985, the Color Purple was made into a movie which won great fame.,Walker, Alice(born February 9, 1944) (1944- ), American writer, poet , critic, and apologist for black women Alice Walker was born in the rural community of Eatonton, Georgia, in 1944. Most of Eatonton's residents were tenant farmers. When she was eight years old, Walker was blinded in one eye when her brother accidentally shot her with a BB gun. Having grown self-conscious as a result of her injury, Alice withdrew to writing poetry.,Alice Walker began her college education at Spelman in 1961 but transferred to Sarah Lawrence in 1963. After graduating in 1965, she went to Mississippi as a civil rights activist. There she met Melvyn Leventhal, a white civil rights attorney, whom she married in 1967. The Leventhals were the first legally married interracial couple to live in Jackson, Mississippi. They divorced in 1976.,Walker's experiences during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence, including undergoing an abortion and making a trip to Africa, provided many of the book's themes, such as love, suicide, civil rights, and Africa,In spring of 1982, Walker became a distinguished writer in the Afro-American studies department in the University of California, Berkeley.,Walkers writing career began with the publication of a volume of poetry (Once )in 1968, which was followed by a number of novels, short stories, critical essays and more poetry. Now she is regarded as one of the most prominent writers in American literature and most forceful representative of womens literature and black literature.,Alice Walkers writing career,She has received numerous awards for her writing, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Award, an O. Henry Award, an American Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Walker is the first black female writer who won the Pulitzer Prize in U.S.A.,Alice Walkers writing career,长篇小说： TheThird Life of Grange Copeland格兰治科普兰的第三次生活; Meridian梅丽迪安; The Color Purple紫色 名文： The Civil Rights Movement:What Good Was It? 短篇小说集： In Love and Trouble相爱与苦恼; You Cant Keep a Good Woman Down好女人永不屈服 散文集：In Search of Our Mothers Gardens 诗集：Once有一次;Revolutionary Petunias革命的牵牛花 传记：Langston Hughes,Alice Walkers works,The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) -is about the emotional growth of an African American man. Meridian (1976) -describes the life of an African American woman during the civilrights movement of the 1960s.,The Color Purple (1982) -was praised for its strong characterizations and the clear, musical quality of its colloquial language. (American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize ),Walker's other works,The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970) Meridian (1976) The Color Purple (1982) The Temple of My Familiar (1989) Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998),Alice Walkers works Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992) -explores the tradition of female circumcision still practiced in some places in Africa. By the Light of My Fathers Smile (1998) -portrays a Christian missionary family, focusing on the relationship between the father and the three daughters.,Alice Walkers works A collection of short stories: In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) Walkers volumes of poetry include: Once (1968) (Walkers first collection of poems ) Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973) (the National Book Award nomination ) Goodnight, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning (1979).,Walkers nonfiction works include the essay collections:In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983) Living by the Word (1988) Anything We Love Can Be Saved (1997).,Objectives of Teaching,To comprehend the whole story To lean and master the vocabulary and expressions To learn to paraphrase the difficult sentences To understand the structure of the text To appreciate the style and rhetoric of the passage.,Important and Difficult points,The comprehension of the whole story The understanding of certain expressions The appreciation of the writing technique Colloquial, slangy or black English Cultural difference between nationalities in the US,Walker's short story “Everyday Use“ contains several important parallels to the author's own life. Born in 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker grew up in an environment much like that described in the story. Her parents were both sharecroppers, her family lived in a rundown shack, and racial segregation was legally enforced, prompting the author to describe the times as America's own era of apartheid.,Walker and her “Everyday Use”,Like Maggie Johnson, Walker was disfigured as a child. A gunshot wound left her blind in one eye; she became shy and withdrew into her own world of reading and writing. Like Dee Johnson, Walker's abilities garnered her a scholarship to Spelman College, which led her away from her poverty-stricken background to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1961.,