Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre
Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre
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非洲和加勒比剧院的文化与身份
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2009
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O. Okagbue
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连接非洲和加勒比的是跨大西洋的奴隶制，它将无数非洲儿女运送到新大陆的种植园，为西欧资本主义服务。由于这种跨大西洋奴隶制和欧洲殖民主义的共同经历，文化和身份问题是非洲和加勒比海剧作家的主要关切。奴隶制和殖民主义涉及系统的文化诋毁、非人化和丧失自由的行为，这在加勒比地区被殖民的非洲人和被奴役的非洲人后裔的集体心理上留下了印记。这两次经历带来了严重的文化和心理混乱，至今仍以各种方式影响着非洲人和世界各地非洲人后裔的生活。
非洲和加勒比海的剧作家试图通过肯定他们的文化、历史和身份来帮助他们的人民恢复尊严。这本书的重点是加勒比戏剧和撒哈拉以南非洲戏剧之间的相似之处和差异，展示了在每种情况下，身份和文化是如何谈判和确认的。
What connects Africa and the Caribbean is trans-Atlantic slavery which transported numerous sons and daughters of Africa to the plantations of the New World in the service of Western European capitalism. Because of this shared experience of trans-Atlantic slavery and European colonialism, issues of culture and identity are major concerns for African and Caribbean playwrights. Slavery and colonialism had involved systematic acts of cultural denigration, de-humanisation and loss of freedom, which left imprints on the collective psyches of the colonised Africans and enslaved peoples of African descent in the Caribbean. Both experiences brought intense cultural and psychic dislocations which still impact in various ways on the lives of Africans and peoples of African descent around the world.
African and Caribbean playwrights try to help their peoples regain their dignities by affirming their cultures, histories and identities. The book focuses on the similarities and differences between Caribbean theatre and the theatre of sub-Saharan Africa, showing how identities and cultures are negotiated and affirmed in each case.