① 佐拉·尼爾·赫斯頓的簡介
佐拉·尼爾·赫斯頓(Zora Neale Hurston,1891-1960),是20世紀美國文學的重要人物之一。她是小說家、黑人民間傳說收集研究家、人類學家。她也生在美國南方,是哈萊姆文藝復興時期的活躍分子。她畢生為保持黑人文化傳統而奮斗,收集出版了黑人民間故事集《騾與人》及《告訴我的馬》。赫斯頓還寫了四部小說:《他們眼望上蒼》《約拿的葫蘆藤》《摩西,山之人》《蘇旺尼的六翼天使》。其中《他們眼望上蒼》是她最受歡迎的作品,是黑人文學中第一部充分展示黑人女子內心女性意識覺醒的作品,在黑人女性形象的創造上具有里程碑式的意義,被公認是黑人文學的經典作品之一。
② 佐拉·尼爾·赫斯頓的介紹
佐拉·尼爾·赫斯頓(Zora Neale Hurston,1891.1.7-1960.1.28),是20世紀美國文學的重要人物之一。
③ 誰是登月第一人
美國的尼爾·奧爾登·阿姆斯特朗(Neil Alden Armstrong)。
1969年7月16日,同奧爾德林和柯林斯(由他擔任指令長)乘「阿波羅-11」號宇宙飛船,飛向月球。7月20日,由阿姆斯特朗操縱「飛鷹」號登月艙在月球表面著陸,當天下午10時他和奧爾德林跨出登月艙,踏上月面。
阿姆斯特朗率先踏上月球那荒涼而沉寂的土地,成為第一個登上月球並在月球上行走的人。當時他說出了此後在無數場合常被引用的名言:「這是個人邁出的一小步,但卻是人類邁出的一大步。」他們在月球上度過21個小時,21日從月球起飛,24日返回地球。同年獲總統頒發的自由勛章。
美國東部時間2012年8月25日(周六),首位登上月球的宇航員美國人尼爾·奧爾登·阿姆斯特朗(Neil Alden Armstrong)逝世,享年82歲。阿姆斯特朗8月早些時候曾接受心臟搭橋手術,並「康復良好」。
據美國全國廣播公司(NBC)報道,他的家人報告稱死亡時間是25日下午2時45分。一份聲明中說,他死於心血管手術引起的並發症。
阿姆斯特朗1930年8月5日生於美國俄亥俄州的沃帕科內塔。1955年,他加入美國太空總署,成為一名非軍職的高速試飛員。1962年9月17日,他獲選為第二批的九名受訓的宇航員之一,他也是第一位非軍職的宇航員。
1966年3月16日,他做為「雙子星8號」的正駕駛,進行了首次太空飛行。1969年7月16日他成為「阿波羅11號」指揮官。1969年7月20日,阿姆斯特朗成為登月第一人。
④ 佐拉·尼爾·赫斯頓的介紹,以及Slavery Gave Nothing TO lost 更詳細的講解
佐拉·尼爾·赫斯頓(Zora Neale Hurston),1891-1960,是20世紀美國文學的重要人物之一。她是小說家、黑人民間傳說收集研究家、人類學家。她也生在美國南方,是哈萊姆文藝復興時期的活躍分子。她畢生為保持黑人文化傳統而奮斗,收集出版了黑人民間故事集《騾與人》及《告訴我的馬》。赫斯頓還寫了四部小說:《他們眼望上蒼》《約拿的葫蘆藤》《摩西,山之人》《蘇旺尼的六翼天使》。這是黑人文學中第一部充分展示黑人女子內心女性意識覺醒的作品,在黑人女性形象的創造上具有里程碑式的意義,被公認是黑人文學的經典作品之一。
BIRTHDATE: Jan. 7, 1891?
EDUCATION: Graated from Morgan Academy (high school division of Morgan College (now Morgan State University) in 1918. Attended Howard University and received her B.A. in anthropology from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1928.
FAMILY BACKGROUND: Her father was a Baptist preacher, tenant farmer, and carpenter. At age three her family moved to Eatonville, Fla., the first incorporated black community in America, of which her father would become mayor. In her writings she would glorify Eatonville as a utopia where black Americans could live independent of the prejudices of white society.
DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS: A novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston was the prototypical authority on black culture from the Harlem Renaissance. In this artistic movement of the 1920s black artists moved from traditional dialectical works and imitation of white writers to explore their own culture and affirm pride in their race. Zora Neale Hurston pursued this objective by combining literature with anthropology. She first gained attention with her short stories such as "John Redding Goes to Sea" and "Spunk" which appeared in black literary magazines. After several years of anthropological research financed through grants and fellowships, Zora Neale Hurston's first novel Jonah's Gourd Vine was published in 1934 to critical success. In 1935, her book Mules and Men, which investigated voodoo practices in black communities in Florida and New Orleans, also brought her kudos.
The year 1937 saw the publication of what is considered Hurston's greatest novel Their Eyes Watching God. And the following year her travelogue and study of Caribbean voodoo Tell My Horse was published. It received mixed reviews, as did her 1939 novel Moses, Man of the Mountain. Her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road was a commercial success in 1942, despite its overall absurdness, and her final novel Seraph on the Suwanee, published in 1948, was a critical failure.
Zora Neale Hurston was a utopian, who held that black Americans could attain sovereignty from white American society and all its bigotry, as proven by her hometown of Eatonville. Never in her works did she address the issue of racism of whites toward blacks, and as this became a nascent theme among black writers in the post World War II ear of civil rights, Hurston's literary influence faded. She further scathed her own reputation by railing the civil rights movement and supporting ultraconservative politicians. She died in poverty and obscurity.
DATE OF DEATH: Jan. 28, 1960.
PLACE OF DEATH: Fort Pierce, Fla.
Primary Works
Jonah's Gourd Wine (novel), 1934; Mules and Men (folklore), 1935; Their Eyes Were Watching God (novel), 1937; Tell My Horse (Caribbean travel book), 1938; Moses: Man of the Mountain (novel), 1939; Dust Tracks on a Road (autobiography), 1942; Seraph on the Swanee, 1948; I Love Myself When I am Laughing ... & Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (ed. Alice Walker), 1979; The Sanctified Church (ed. Toni Cade Bambara), 1981; Spunk: The Selected Short Stories of ZNH, 1985.
Drama: Color Struck:A Play in Four Scenes. Fire!! 1(November 1926): 7-14; "Great Day," 1927; Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts, 1931, Drama Critique (Spring 1964): 1-3-107.
Fiction:
Jonah's Gourd Vine. Introction by Fannie Hurston. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott; London: Duckworth Press, 1934; Moses, Man of the Mountain. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1939. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1941; Seraph on the Sewanee. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948; Spunk, the Short Stories of Zora Neale Hurston. Berkeley, Calif.: Turtle Island Foundation, 1984; Their Eyes Were Watching God. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1937.
Short Stories (not in Spunk):
"Drenched in Light." Opportunity (December 1924): 371-74; "John Redding Goes to Sea." Opportunity (January 1926): 16-21.
Nonfiction:
Dust Tracks on a Road. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1942; I Love Myself When I Am Laughing anf Then Again when I Am Looking Mean And Impressive. Edited by Alice Walker. Introction by Mary Helen Washington. Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist Press, 1979; Mules and Men. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1935; The Sanctified Church. Foreward by Toni Cade Bambara. Berkeley, Calif.: Turtle Island Foundation, 1981; Tell My Horse. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1938.
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建議參看:
20世紀美國黑人文學批評理論
http://www.lwlm.com/show.aspx?id=4649&cid=47
關於Slavery Gave Nothing TO lost中的反傳統的積極、樂觀的奴隸制度,因為我沒有看過原文不便評論,但對於奴隸制的認識不能局限於我們傳統的觀念,請思考過為什麼在民主、共和的近代美國還會出現奴隸制。