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发表于 2009-5-22 21:40:51
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同学们都在小声地用英文交谈,记录。 我随手拿起桌上的书,也就是他们正讨论的小说。 书名《ABENG》
在亚马逊上找到这本书:http://www.amazon.com/Abeng-Michelle-Cliff/dp/0452274834, 200页左右
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A lyrical coming-of-age story and a provocative retelling of the colonial history of Jamaica
Originally published in 1984, this critically acclaimed novel is the story of Clare Savage, a light-skinned, twelve-year-old, middle-class girl growing up in Jamaica in the 1950s. As she tries to find her own identity and place in her culture, Clare carries the burden of her mixed heritage. There are the Maroons, who used the conch shell—the abeng—to pass messages as they fought against their English enslavers. And there is her white great-great-grandfather, Judge Savage, who burned his hundred slaves on the eve of their emancipation. In Clare’s struggle to reconcile the conflicting legacies of her own personal lineage, esteemed Caribbean author Michelle Cliff dramatically confronts the cultural and psychological violence inflicted upon the island and its people by colonialism.
我没看过这本书,听也没听过, 但是就此简介来说, 似乎已经是有点SERIOUS的意味了。
密密麻麻的小字,无图, 学生在里面做了很多的笔记。
休息的时候, 问老师这个是否是他们的TEXTBOOK,答不是,另外有教材, 不过并不总是用那本教材, 每个学期会精读几本小说。 又问, 他们是怎么精读的, 老师说,分析人物的性格,故事发生的历史背景,就故事本身进行讨论,提问,PRESENTATION,与其他类似作品进行比较等等,学完后,需要写PAPER。哇塞, 这是真正的文学课啊。。还带比较文学的。。。
不仅让我想起了我初一的时候上的语文课。我们从头到尾就是上那本教材。 教材内有名著的部分, 也只是节选。 我的印象中, 从来没有哪位老师带领我们真正遨游文学世界,从头到尾,精读一本小说的。这是为什么呢?
不知道论坛里的家长初一的时候是否和我同样经历。 |
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