黄柳霜的角色扮演与身份认同

Anna May Wong:the Role-Playing and Identification

黄柳霜是体现全球化色彩的一个早期样本。她是在新奇、复杂、多维的文化场景中进行现代自我想象与塑造的,她的美貌和表演天赋使她能够成为好莱坞明星,但她的华裔出身又限制并规定着她的角色扮演。在遭遇多次排斥后,黄柳霜选择了对中国文化的身份认同。她传奇的一生向我们展示的是全球化时代初期身份选择的可能性与不可能性。

Anna May Wong was an early sample in the context of globalization.She began her modern self-fashioning and imagination in the context of new,complicated and multidimensional cultures.Her beauty and gift in performance ensured that she could be a Hollywood star while her role-playing was rigidly confined because she was a Chinese descendant.Anna May Wong chose to identify with Chinese culture after numerous exclusions from playing lead roles in films.Her legendary life exemplified the possibility and impossibility of identification in the early stage of globalization.