Forcing Incompatibilities: The Tension between Political Commentary and Existential Drama in Athol Fugard's Sizwe Bansi is Dead

強行互斥：亞索•傳格德“希維班史已死”劇中政治評論與存在主義戲劇間的矛盾

張源勤(Yuan-Chin Chang)

《語文與國際研究》 4期 (2007/12) Pp. 1-13

https://doi.org/10.7084/LIS.200712.0001

摘要

本論文檢視南非劇作家傅格德「希維班史已死」劇中政治評論／社會批評與存在主義戲劇矛盾，兩者之間所產生的對立關係。而同劇中社會政治、意識型態的關注與存在主義哲學困境之間產生問題的並存，也在本論文中加以討論。在其劇中，傅格德看來雖成功的調和了這些矛盾，但仍有其侷限，因為，任何形式的調和，終將在更巨大的政治社會關注的消溶中崩解，反而留置了存在主義焦慮不安所無法填補的真空狀態。然而，本文推斷此瑕疵並非在於劇作本身，而在於其試圖將文化政治的關注滲入存在主義的情境中。

關鍵字

黑人城鎮劇 ； 種族隔離 ； 口述傳統 ； 存在主義 ； 荒謬性

並列摘要

This paper examines the tension between political commentary/social criticism, and existential dramatic conflict, in Athol Fugard's Sizwe Bansi Is Dead. It considers the problematic compatibility between socio-political and ideological concerns and existentialist philosophical dilemmas in the same play. The paper concludes that Fugard does a good job of reconciling these tensions in his play. The ability to do so is limited and any reconciliation eventually falls apart in the dissolution of the larger socio-political concerns. This leaves a vacuum that the basic existential angst cannot really fill. The conclusion is that the fault lies not with the play itself but with any attempt to ”fold” cultural and political concerns into existential ones.

並列關鍵字

township plays ； apartheid ； oral tradition ； existentialism ； absurdity

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