So, I'm moving from the question of "What does America look like; what's the mythic vocabulary that Sal is using?"

这里我要从，“美国看上去像什么？,萨尔使用的神话词汇有哪些“，的问题跳到“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, first he makes America mythic, rather than specific , and then he enters into that mythology through acts of identification.

他是首先将美国赋予神话色彩，而不去将它具体化，然后他通过寻找自我认同感的行为进入了自己的神话。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

But, as you've seen, the mythic quality of America has pushed Komfee Kabins all of that aside.So,it's not just the Komfee Kabins that we don't see; it's the whole history of slavery.

但就像你们看到的，美国的神话这一要素将,那些都推到了一旁，所以这不是我们看不见;,这涉及整个奴隶制的历史。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选