摘要
美国当代剧作家山姆·谢泼德戏剧中的图像丰富多样,图像的运用贯穿谢泼德的整个戏剧生涯,而家庭是其剧作的核心主题之一。谢泼德的扛鼎之作《被埋葬的孩子》讲述了一个病态的美国家庭的故事,悬挂在墙壁上的图像记录家庭历史;剧中人物不看图像欲将隐藏在图像中的耻辱和罪责埋葬在记忆深处;“不看”演变为“不见”,制造了漠然、孤绝的家庭氛围,引发共情能力的缺失;言说主体直面过去、言说被埋葬的事件,淡化了这个家庭的悲剧色彩。图像与观看的多维图景有效地传递难以言说的焦灼感和拘囿感,表露渴望摆脱拘囿境地的内心挣扎,体现了谢泼德对美国家庭生存状态的审视和忧思。在他看来,言说创伤记忆对于拯救阴霾笼罩的病态家庭至关重要。
Sam Shepard’s plays abound in pictures of various kinds.The use of pictures and the demystification of family run through his entire dramatic career.Shepard’s masterpiece Buried Child tells the story of a dysfunctional American family,and the pictures hung on the wall in the play record the history of this family.Characters in the play attempt to bury the ignominies of incest and infanticide in their memories,by not seeing the pictures.However,not seeing is extended to other aspects of their life,creating the atmosphere of indifference and estrangement and leading to the loss of empathy.Characters’eventual willingness to face the past and tell the stories behind the pictures,together with the return of the wanderer,dilute the family’s tragic color.The interactions between pictures and seeing effectively convey the senses of anxiety and entrapment,and reveal characters’inner struggles in escaping the familial entrapment,embodying the playwright’s deep concern for the existence of American families.For Shepard,saying something about the traumatic memories is of vital importance to save the dysfunctional family.
出处
《外语与外语教学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2023年第2期134-142,148,共10页
Foreign Languages and Their Teaching
基金
国家社科基金艺术学重大项目“当代欧美戏剧理论前沿问题研究”(项目编号:18ZD06)
教育部人文社会科学研究青年项目“战后美国戏剧中多维共同体的建构研究”(项目编号:22YJC752002)的阶段性研究成果
作者简介
郝志琴,副教授,博士,研究方向:英美文学,西方戏剧。邮箱:haozhiqin2011@126.com
