今年6月,我受美国弗吉尼亚州人文科学研究中心的资助和邀请,到那里研究美国奴隶制度对文学的影响。研究中心设在美国《独立宣言》起草人杰斐逊总统的故乡夏洛茨维尔,就在杰斐逊一手创办的弗吉尼亚大学旁边。杰斐逊认为自己一生中做了三件大事:起草《独立宣言》、制订弗吉尼亚州法律和创办弗吉尼亚大 In June this year, I was funded and invited by the Virginia Center for Humanities and Sciences to study the impact of American slavery on literature. The research center is located in Charlottesville, the hometown of President Jefferson, the drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence, just next to the University of Virginia, which Jefferson first set up. Jefferson thinks he has done three major things in his life: drafting the Declaration of Independence, enacting Virginia law and establishing the University of Virginia