恩托扎格·商格的戏剧美学——以《献给想要自杀的有色人种女孩》为例

Ntozake Shange’s Dramatic Aesthetics:A Case Study of Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide

在其代表作《献给想要自杀的有色人种女孩》中,非裔美国戏剧家商格不仅利用配舞诗剧这种来源于非洲的传统戏剧形式重现非裔美国传统文化,还通过演绎七位非裔美国女孩的悲惨经历,诠释了其戏剧美学中的黑人女权主义。该剧中非裔传统文化意识与黑人女权主义的并置,既体现了商格的戏剧美学,也反映了商格对非裔美国女性的身份困境的深入思考。在商格看来,被歧视的非裔美国女性必须紧密团结起来,以自己的方式言说自我,重建非裔美国女性身份。

In her representative play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,African American playwright Ntozake Shange not only expresses her understanding of traditional African American culture through the form of choreopoem,which is deeply rooted in the African tradition,but also expounds her dramatic aesthetics in terms of black feminism by dramatizing seven black girls’pathetic experiences.By juxtaposing African American cultural awareness and black feminism in the play,Shange articulates her dramatic aesthetics and her deep concerns over African American women’s dilemma in a white dominant society.According to Shange,African American women,who have long been forgotten and despised,should be united and make their voices heard in a unique way in order to reconstruct their ethnic and gender identities.