In Marilynne Robinson's Gilead,the first John Ames is the memory-individual whose personal memory serves as the living memory to combat the collective historical amnesia of Iowa’s antislavery movement.For all his...In Marilynne Robinson's Gilead,the first John Ames is the memory-individual whose personal memory serves as the living memory to combat the collective historical amnesia of Iowa’s antislavery movement.For all his efforts,memory is framed by the present.Gilead has forgotten its abolitionist root and anti-racial discrimination tradition.The individual effort to resist collective historical amnesia fails.Through the first Ames’s failure,Robinson presents the politics of memory,particularly the struggle between individual memory and collective historical amnesia.The historical amnesia of abolitionism over Gilead is Robinson’s criticism of the present societal betrayal of the pursuit of racial equality as epitomized in the historical antislavery movement.Robinson’s memory writing in Gilead is also her literary endeavor to remember the forgotten history and to reflect upon the racial issue pervading present American society.展开更多
文摘Glaxo Group Research Ltd.(Greenford,米德尔塞克斯,英国)和Gilead Sciences(Foster City,加拿大)已同意合作研究基因靶向技术.Glaxo将投资二亿美元,得到Gilead的少量股份.协议包括一个五年的研究项目.与缺陷基因的基因治疗或诊断不同。
基金funded by Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University(2021SDKYB087).
文摘In Marilynne Robinson's Gilead,the first John Ames is the memory-individual whose personal memory serves as the living memory to combat the collective historical amnesia of Iowa’s antislavery movement.For all his efforts,memory is framed by the present.Gilead has forgotten its abolitionist root and anti-racial discrimination tradition.The individual effort to resist collective historical amnesia fails.Through the first Ames’s failure,Robinson presents the politics of memory,particularly the struggle between individual memory and collective historical amnesia.The historical amnesia of abolitionism over Gilead is Robinson’s criticism of the present societal betrayal of the pursuit of racial equality as epitomized in the historical antislavery movement.Robinson’s memory writing in Gilead is also her literary endeavor to remember the forgotten history and to reflect upon the racial issue pervading present American society.
