《自由之夏》创作评述

Commentary on Freedom Summer

道格·麦克亚当在1988年发表的《自由之夏》聚焦白人精英学生参与的民权活动。作品以白人精英大学生及其内心体验为视角,并在"自由之夏"运动这一历史事件背景下,揭示出"自由之夏"运动的时代意义,以及在历史发展进程中所具有的历史影响力。《自由之夏》是一部较具影响力的口述史著作,阐述了20世纪60年代的"自由之夏"运动的历史影响,以白人精英为切入点,着眼于"自由之夏"和学生运动、反战运动及妇女运动之间的联系,反映美国民权运动的新族裔史观。

In his 1988 Freedom Summer,Doug McAdam focused on Civil Rights Movement joined by elite white students.The works profoundly reveals the significance of the′summer of freedom′movement and the historical impact in the process of historical development from the perspective of white elite college students and their inner experience,and putting the historical event of′freedom summer′movement in the broad historical background.Freedom Summer is a more influential works on oral history.It expounds the historical impact of the′freedom summer′movement in the 1960s,and reveals the links among the′freedom summer′movement and the student,anti-war and women′s movements.The white elite as the entry point of the study also reflects the new concept of ethnic history in study on the American civil rights movement.