But then there is this very explicit discussion of her Catholicism, a little further down: My background and my inclinations are both Catholic, and I think this is very apparent in the book.

然后这里有一段非常明确的,关于她的天主教义的讨论，在往下看一点：,“天主教是我的背景和取向，我想这在书中有很明显的体现。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Yes, this is a book about the privations of growing up in the South poor and black, but it is very much, very consciously, a book about the development of someone who attends to language.

书的着重点的确是,记述在南方成长的穷孩子，但作者刻意地描述了，一个关注语言人的成长经历。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选