在配舞诗剧中的自我救赎——商格《献给想要自杀的有色人种女孩》中的性别政治

Self-salvation in the Chorepoem:The Gender Politics in Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide

非裔美国戏剧家恩托扎格·商格的《献给想要自杀的有色人种女孩》利用配舞诗剧的表现形式,演绎了七位被边缘化的非裔美国女孩的悲惨经历。通过音乐与舞蹈,借助戏剧文本、戏剧结构和服饰颜色等戏剧构成因素,该剧呈现了作为种族主义和性别歧视双重受害者的非裔美国女性从痛苦走向救赎的过程。该剧不仅消解了非裔美国女性的传统刻板形象,还揭示出她们构建自身主体性的途径,最终重写了美国父权社会中的性别政治秩序。

African American dramatist Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide uses the dramatic form of chorepoem to dramatize the tragic experiences of seven marginalized African American girls.Through Black music,dance and other dramatic elements including dramatic text,dramatic structure and costume color,the play presents the journey of African American females,who are victims of both racism and sexism,from suffering to salvation.The play not only deconstructs the traditional stereotypes of African American females,but reveals the way for them to construct their own subjectivity,and thus ultimately rewrites the the gender politics order in American patriarchal society.