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雪莉·塞缪尔斯是康奈尔大学英文与美国研究教授,其主要研究领域为19世纪美国文学与文化,重点关注种族与性别.她是美国内战文学领域的知名学者之一,著述广泛,颇具影响力.其中重点和具有代表性的著述包括《文化证词与内战》(2020)、《解读1780-1865年间的美国小说》(2012)、《亚伯拉罕·林肯剑桥指南》(2012)、《直面美国:图像学与美国内战》(2004), “文学与内战”(收录于《美国文学指南》,2020)、“审视林肯”(收录于《美国内战文学史》,2016)等.在本次访谈中,塞缪尔斯教授介绍了一个半世纪以来美国内战文学书写的流变,聚焦于该文学谱系中的种族、性别和文类三个重要议题.她指出了近几十年间内战文学在种族和奴隶制问题上的深化与新颖研究.同时,她格外关注了女性作家(包括非裔女性作家)对内战的记录与书写,以及日记和奴隶叙事等时常被人忽视的文类.她还建议内战文学学者们将视野置于更为广阔的19世纪美国历史及文化语境,拓展理解内战文学的疆界.“,”Shirley Samuels is Professor of English and American Studies at Cornel1 University.Her research field is mainly the 19th-century American literature and culture,with much emphasis on race and gender.She has been one of the leading scholars in “Literature and the Civil War” with extensive and seminal publications.Her focalized and representative publications on this topic include the following books and book chapters: Cultural Testimony and the Civil War (2020),Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 (2012),The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln (2012),Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War (2004),and “Literature and the Civil War” in A Companion to American Literature (2020),“Looking at Lincoln” in A History of American Civil War Literature (2016).In this interview,Professor Samuels introduced the transformations of the Civil War literature over the sesquicentennial history,with an emphasis on race,gender,and genre in its genealogy.She pointed out the deepening and new research on racial and slavery issue in recent decades.Meanwhile,she paid particular attention to the Civil War documenting and Writings of women writers (including African American women writers),as well as the often-neglected genres such as diaries and slave narratives.Professor Samuels also suggested that the Civil War literature scholars turn their attention to the broader historical and cultural contexts of the whole 19th-century United States and extend the borders of understanding Civil War literature.