英语临床6夏季课件：unit_2

1、Unit 2 Intoxicated by My Illness by Anatole BroyardAnatole Paul Broyard (July 16, 1920 October 11, 1990) an American writer literary critic editor for The New York Times. During his lifetime： many reviews & columns short stories essays two books His autobiographical works (published after his death)

2、: Intoxicated by My Illness (1992) Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir (1993)His marriageBroyard first married Aida Sanchez, a |Light skinned Puerto Rican with whom he had a daughter, Gala. They divorced after Broyard returned from military service in World War II.In 1961, at the age of 4

3、0, Broyard married again, to Alexandra (Sandy) Nelson, who was a modern dancer and a younger woman of Norwegian-American ancestry. Broyard had some stories accepted for publication in the 1940s. He began studying at Brooklyn College before the US entered World War II. When he enlisted in the Army, t

4、he armed services were segregated; Broyard was accepted as white, went to officers school, and was promoted to captain. After his death, Broyard became the center of controversy and discussions related to how he had chosen to live as an adult in New York. A Louisiana Creole of mixed race, he was cri

5、ticized by some blacks for passing as white as an adult and failing to acknowledge his African-American ancestry. Multiracial advocates though have cited Broyard as an example of someone forging their own racial identity long before it was acceptable in mainstream America. Because of his artistic am

6、bition, in some circumstances he never acknowledged that he was part black.Anatole Broyard wanted to be a writer - and not just a Negro writer consigned to the back of the literary bus. -Brent Staples (the writer and editor ) In his terms, he did not want to write about black love, black passion, black suffering, black joy; he wanted to write ab