《美国牧歌》,犹太作家菲利·普罗斯的在二十世纪末创作的又一巨著。作品围绕一个美国犹太移民家庭的三代人展开,犹太性与美国性是这三代人在不同时期所展现的身份变迁,是坚守传统文化还是主流文化,他们有怎样的取舍,作者以此揭露犹太人作为一种边缘人在融入美国文化时面临的困境。 “American Pastoral”, another great work by the Jewish writer Philippe Proshos at the end of the twentieth century. The works focus on the three generations of a Jewish immigrant family in the United States. Jewishness and Americanism are the three generations’ status changes manifested in different periods. They adhere to the traditional culture or the mainstream culture. What kind of trade-offs do they have? A kind of marginalized people in the United States culture integration difficulties.