《吾国至上》中的戏剧策略与文化殖民

Dramatic Strategy and Cultural Colonization in Our Country's Good

《吾国至上》是英国当代女剧作家丁布莱克·韦藤贝克的著名代表作。该剧以"剧中剧"的元戏剧形式讲述了流放到澳大利亚的英国囚犯在的拉尔夫·克拉克少尉的指导下排演乔治·法夸尔的喜剧《招兵官》的故事。在该剧中,戏剧策略表面上体现了对囚犯的解放和救赎,但本质上却是一种复杂和隐匿的文化殖民形式。本文从该剧中戏剧启蒙对等级身份的预设、戏剧生产对殖民他者的规训和同化以及戏剧艺术对英帝国性认同的建构三个方面入手,论证了戏剧策略仍归属霸权文化的殖民话语。

Our Country＇s Good is one of the representative works of Timberlake Wertenbaker,a British contemporary woman writer. This play employs the meta theatrical device of play-within-the-play to tell the story of a group of transported British convicts mangaged by Second-lieutenant Ralph Clark rehearsed George Farquhar＇s comic The Recruting Officer. Dramatic strategy embodies the liberation and redemption of prisoners,but in essence it is a complex and hidden cultural means of colonization. This article tries to prove that dramatic strategy still belongs to the colonial discourse of hegemonic culture from three aspects as hierarchical identity presupposed by dramatic enlightenment,the colonial effect of discipline and assimilation created by dramtic produce,and the constrcution of dramatic art to the identity of British Empire.