沃格尔戏剧《狂热与悸动》中的叙事

Narration in Paula Vogel’s Play Hot‘n’Throbbing

美国剧作家保拉·沃格尔的剧作《狂热与悸动》融多种叙事手法为一体,是颇具革新性和后现代主义特征之作。本文从非自然叙事学视角入手,对剧中的叙事手法与策略进行考察。论文认为:"剧内音"与"剧外音"的使用,架起了观演双方间的桥梁,帮助观众了解剧情,推动故事发展。普通舞台灯光和蓝色舞台灯光塑造的两个横向平行空间叙事,外化了人物内心世界,揭露了单身女性的生存状态。纵向、非线性、碎片化的意识流空间叙事,则展露了女主人公的意识流动,凸显了不同角色的追求与欲望。通过非自然叙事,剧作者批评了当下美国社会的家庭暴力与失衡的男女关系。

Hot‘n’Throbbing,written by the American dramatist Paula Vogel,is an innovative play with postmodern characteristics.It integrates various narrative methods.This article studies the play’s narrative techniques and strategies from the perspective of unnatural narratology.The authors argue that the play’s use of"the Voice"and"Voice-Over"narration sets up a bridge between audience and performers,helps the audience understand the play,and advances the story.Two parallel,spatially adjacent narratives,marked by ordinary stage lighting and blue lighting,externalize the inner world of the characters,exposing the living conditions of single women.These two complexly fragmented,spatialized stream-of-consciousness narratives reveal the heroine’s flow of consciousness and highlight different characters’pursuits and desires.By using unnatural narrative strategies,the playwright criticizes domestic violence in American society and the power imbalance between men and women.