In the second half of class, I will introduce to you and start telling the first story of the term, and that's about Richard Wright's Black boy which is our first reading of the term.

下面我将把这堂课的，第一个故事介绍并讲述给你们,理查，怀特的《黑孩子》,这是我们这学期要读的第一本书。

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That has a typical Bildungsroman structure, the structure of a story about a boy who goes out from his home and sort of becomes a man through his travels.

这里具备一个典型成长小说的框架，故事结构讲的是,一个背井离乡的男孩,在旅途中长大成人。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Or when we were talking about the cabin boy, killing and eating the cabin boy.

还有第二讲里独木艇上那个男孩，杀掉并吃掉船上的侍者。

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Now if you think about it, boy, it sounds like grammar school.

现在如果你们想一想，好嘛，听上去简直就像语法学校。

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And there were even newspaper articles about this boy genius as a musician.

但是报纸上甚至有,关于这个音乐天才的文章。

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And he--one day this boy showed up in the class-- this was during Vichy, about 1943, maybe it's '44, and he's new and he's not different, he's just not from there.

他,有一天班里来了个新同学,当时是维西政府时期,1943年,也可能44年,他是新来的也没什么特别之处,只是不是当地人

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But boy, if you think about your advertising landscape?

但同学们,想想你们看过的广告

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Black Boy We started this course talking about Black Boy - and the way that a whole world of pressure-- pushed on the borders of that work and actually changed its very material form.

在开始这门课的时候我们先讨论了,说了这个充满政治压力的种族矛盾激化的世界-,并且已经改变了,它的实体范畴的。

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The way I understood it originally was that that was the whole issue is that the cabin boy was never consulted about whether or not something was going to happen to him, even with the original lottery whether or not he would be a part of that, it was just decided that he was the one that was going to die.

就我的理解，从始至终,一直困扰我们的争端就是,从没有人去征得过派克的意见,没人告诉他即将有什么遭遇，就连最初提出的抽签,他是否有份参与，他们径直决定，他应该是被牺牲的那个。

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