【OG阅读请教】-Antonia Castañeda

追梦的Yvonne

请教哪位大神能指教一下这篇阅读应该如何阅读呢？大意以及第一题能帮我分析一下吗？ 谢谢！

Antonia Castañeda has utilized scholarship from women`s studies and Mexican-American history to examine nineteenth-century literary portrayals of Mexican women. As Castañeda notes, scholars of women`s history observe that in the United States, male novelists of the period-during which, according to these scholars, women`s traditional economic role  in home-based agriculture was threatened by the transition to a factory-based industrial economy-  define women solely in their domestic roles of wife and mother. Castañeda finds that during the same period that saw non-Hispanic women being economically displaced by industrialization, Hispanic law in territorial California protected the economic position of  "Californianas" (the Mexican women of the territory) by ensuring them property rights and inheritance rights equal to those of males.

For Castañeda, the laws explain a stereotypical  plot created primarily by male, non-Hispanic novelists: the story of an ambitious non-Hispanic merchant or trader desirous of marrying an elite Californiana. These novels` favorable portrayal of such women is noteworthy, since Mexican-American historians have concluded that unflattering literary depictions of Mexicans were vital in rallying the United States  public`s support for the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The importance of economic alliances forged through marriages with Californianas explains this apparent contradiction. Because of their real- life economic significance, the Californianas were portrayed more favorably than were others of the  same nationality.

1.The "apparent contradiction" mentioned in line 29 refers to the discrepancy between the                        

                                                                                                                    

   A.legal status of Mexican women in territorial California and their status in the United States                                                         
   B.unflattering depiction of Mexicans in novels and the actual public sentiment about the Mexican-American War                                                           
   C.existence of many marriages between Californianas and non-Hispanic merchants and the strictures against them expressed in novels                                          
   D.literary depiction of elite Californianas and the literary depiction of other Mexican individuals                                                           
   E.novelistic portrayals of elite Californianas’ privileged lives and the actual circumstances of those lives

我选了B，OG答案是D

追梦的Yvonne

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选中那条灰色的就有答案了

fleuriehu

追梦的Yvonne 发表于 2018-5-31 18:28
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选中那条灰色的就有答案了

可以再读读出现apparent contradiction的前一句。

追梦的Yvonne

fleuriehu 发表于 2018-6-4 00:50
可以再读读出现apparent contradiction的前一句。

多谢

WBHchasedream

自己第一次做的时候也不太明白这篇文章，后来自己研究了一下，在这里分享下文章大意。

第一段：AC这个人研究19世纪对墨西哥女人的文学描写。然后发现。。。最后是重点，即Hispanic law保护Californianas的经济地位。

第二段：AC说，这个Hispanic law解释了male, non-Hispanic novelists所塑造的stereotypical plot，即非西裔的商人希望娶一位elite Californiana （因为Californiana受Hispanic law保护，拥有和男性同样的财产权和继承权）。然后文章出现一个强对比（即第一题的apparent contradiction的答案），即对Californiana的favorable portrayal和对一般Mexicans的unflattering literary depictions。然后说这个contradiction可以用non-Hispanic商人通过与Californiana结婚而形成的经济联盟解释。而这种经济的重要性也说明了为什么Californiana会比其他Mexican得到更好的描述。

橘黄色字体部分是第一题的答案。

追梦的Yvonne

WBHchasedream 发表于 2018-7-19 22:28
自己第一次做的时候也不太明白这篇文章，后来自己研究了一下，在这里分享下文章大意。

第一段：AC这个人研 ...

回答的好用心，分析的好透彻，跟着你的思路我又重新看了一遍，比原来理解多了，感谢感谢！！