美国非裔文学批评 : 杰瑞·沃德教授中国演讲录

LECTURES

On the Study of Mrican American Literature： The Obligations of Literary History

Tradition and Acknowledgement in Combat Zones

Mrican American Literature's Response to Modernity

Richard Wright Centennial Lectures

Richard Wright and 21 st Century Questions

The Critical Importance of Eugene Redmond's Drumvoices

Trickster Criticism： Kenneth Warren's What Was African American Literature?

Recent African American Studies

The Critical Journey of Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Representation and Natasha Trethewey' Poetry

Southern Version of Truth：Minrose Gwin's The Queen of Palmyra and Katheryn stockett's The Help

"Django Unchained" ：Ambiguous Ethical Response and the Principle of Double Effect

APPENDIX： Blogs and Other Writings

Remarks on April 4, 1997

Introduction for Witherspoon

A Letter to Nathan McCall

Playing in the Sunlight： Colors of Imagination, or Toni Morrison Revisited October 22,1996/August l0,2011

The Ethnic Ethical Turn

On the Letters of Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison

Richard Wright's Spinning of Tales

Wideman's Fanon

A Poetic Journey

Toi Derricotte's Open Confession

The "Death" of African American Literature

The Excellent Absurdity of Legitimate Rape ： A Note on Art and History

Ishmael Reed and the American War of Words

The White Minstrelsy of American Politics

America's Soul Unchained

Houston A. Baker, Jr. 's Critical Memory

Poem 65

On Being Like My Tree

Winter Solitude

Gordon Parks： Photography and Intervention

Free Southern Theater

Mirror of Violence： Charles Fuller's Zooman and the Sign

Ramcat Reads

The Gifts of Black Prisoners

Cultural Literacy and The New York Times

Remembering Alvin Aubert and Amiri Baraka

理论并非自然地具有普遍性，随意运用一种理论去阐释另一个民族的文学往往是荒诞的，疏于探究美国历史而妄谈美国非裔文学中的自我与他者或后殖民理论等时尚话题未免过于奇幻，杰瑞·沃德教授在华任教期间针对中国学术现状设计并发表了一系列的学术演讲，丰富深刻而极具启示意义。《外国语言文学书系·教授文库·美国非裔文学批评：杰瑞·沃德教授中国演讲录》收录的演讲文稿以及沃德教授的部分近期杂谈简短地呈现了沃德教授关于批评家的道德责任、历史与传统对于文学研究的重要性、理查德·赖特的文学遗产与美国和美国文化表述、文学与日常生活等问题的思考。