first published, it's not at the end of

刚出版时的时代背景下 1976年
a long line of these; it's at the beginning.

它并不是在整个发展阶段的末端而是在初始
So, it is one of the first popular books to bring together Barth's

在六十年代巴思的身份认同政治学
insights with those of the identity politics beginning in the '60s.

的资料来源就有这本书
So, Morrison and Kingston, both, are some of the first to take

莫里森和汤亭亭最早具备现代写作
modernist self-consciousness about writing and combine it with this interest in identity.

的自觉意识并将它与特质相互结合
So, that's why I think it sort of doesn't do her justice to see this

所以我认为把它们看做风俗小说
as genre fiction, as too predictable,

批评它们要表达的内容太显而易见
because it was one of the early versions of it.

是有失公平的因为它们存于早期
So, next week we're going to start reading Housekeeping--

下周我们要开始读《管家》
just hold on one sec-- and I want you to think about

请稍等我希望你们思考一下
whether Housekeeping fits the Identity Plot model,

是否能将《管家》套入特质主线的模式中呢