and I want to suggest to you that

这是我对你们的建议
that's because in Morrison's fiction

因为在莫里森的小说中
-this is her first novel begun in the early '60s,

这是她第一部在六十年代早期创作
published in 1970--

并在1970年发行的小说
in this novel,

在这本小说中
she is absorbing something from that '60s culture, reflecting on it,

她吸收了六十年代的某些文化并回忆了这些文化
that Barth kept very much at arm's length.

而巴斯却保持了一臂之距
So, the abstract question of what kinds of narratives produce the

运用哪一种叙述来创作出人物的特征这一抽象的问题
identity of a person becomes for Morrison a political question.

成为了莫里森的一个政治问题
Remember that divide

记住那个分水岭
I was describing in the 1960s political world,

我所描述的六十年代的政治世界
where some activists by the mid '60s began to drop out of activism

在六十年代中期一些激进主义分子脱离了激进主义