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Cultual StudiesBritish Cultural MaterialismCultural materialism was first put forward by Raymond Williams.He is a famous cultural theory and literature critics.Cultural criticism is a kind of theory that research the particularity of the material culture and the literature creative theory within the framework of material culture.Cultural materialism usually analyze the literature from its formation,such as signs and notations,convention,genres and forms.The main character is to reflect the material history such as the social relationship and the right structure.It emphasis on the interactive relationship between literature and social history.Oliver Twist,also known as The Parish Boys Progress,is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens,published by Richard Bentley in 1838.The story is about an orphan,Oliver Twist,who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker.He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger,leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets.Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin,naively unaware of their unlawful activities.American MulticulturalismAfrican American WritersLatina WritersAmerican Indian LiteratureAsian American Writers Society in that eraNearly all the African American students attended segregated schoolInterracial marriage was still illegal.African American writersPlillips Wheatiy-the first vital black poet in 18th centuryToni Morrison-experimental novelist in 20th centuryRalph Ellison-Shadow and ActLiteruture of African American WritingsDouble consciousnessA Chosen PeopleInvisible ManInvisible Man is a monumental novel,one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life.It is a strange story,in which many extraordinary things happenInvisible ManThe story begins with a terrifying experience of the heros high school days,moves quickly to the campus of a Southern Negro college and then to New Yorks Harlem,where most of the action takes place.The many people that the hero meets in the course of his wanderings are remarkably various,complex and significantInvisible mans statue