奥古斯特·威尔逊剧作《钢琴的启示》中的文化民族主义
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关键词:英语语言学论文奥古斯特·威尔逊《钢琴的启示》文化民族主义
摘要:本文是英语语言学论文,本论文主要是从几个方面来进行分析和讨论的,探讨威尔逊在《钢琴的启示》中民族主义理念。威尔逊的民族主义表现在他对黑人移居北方这一历史事实的担心。
Introduction
August Wilson (1945-2005) , two-time Pulitzer Prize- winner, is one of the mostimportant African American playwrights in American literature, who makes a greatcontribution to the development of American plays in the twentieth century. His talent inplotting plays captures the respect and admiration of some New York’s toughest critics. HollyHill, a famous critic, puts Wilson into the greatest world theatrical cannon, explaining that“the size and shape of his vision remind us of Shakespeare’s and of the beginnings of westerndrama in Greece”(qtd. in Wang Jing 1). He is also acclaimed by Richard Hornby, an eminenttheater critic, to be “the only American playwright of his generation who can be mentioned inthe same breath as O’Neill, Williams, or Miller ”(qtd. in Wang 1). Actually, when Wilsonfirst appeared in the theater in the 1980s , another prestigious theater critic Samuel G.Freedman considered his appearance as the “most auspicious arrival of an Americanplaywright since that of David Mamet”(qtd. in Wang 1). He together with Ed Bullins ispraised as “seminal figures in the
history of African American drama since the war”( Gray688) and “one of the most powerful black voice of the 1980s ” (Bigsby 271).
A prolific writer, Wilson writes many outstanding plays in his life. Yet, his most famousworks are Pittsburgh Cycle plays. The Pittsburgh Cycle plays include ten plays, with eachplay setting its background in different decade in the twentieth century. These plays aim to,according to Wilson, demonstrate the choices African American had made to survive in eachcritical juncture point of African American history as well as to endow them meanings in asuppressing society. His Pittsburgh Cycle plays contain Jitney (1982), Ma Rainy’s BlackBottom (1984), Fences (1987), Joe Turners’ Come and Gone (1988), The Piano Lesson(1990), Two Trains Running (1992), Seven Guitars (1995), King Hedley II (2001), Gem of theOcean (2003), Radio Golf (2005), among which Fences and The Piano Lesson won him twoPulitzer Prizes for Drama separately in 1987 and 1990. His other works also win himnumerous honors like a Tony Award, a Great Britain’s Olivier Award, eight New YorkCritics’ Cycle Awards and many other honors (“August Wilson”). On account of his greatcontribution, after his death the Virginia Theater in New York Broadway’s theater district isrenamed as August Wilson theater. And that is the first Broadway theater that bears the nameof an African American.Wilson’s great success as an African American playwright can be traced back to hischildhood. Born as an African American, Wilson’s childhood can be seen as a stereotypedvictim of racism. In the school, he encountered unfair treatment because of racism, which isthe reason why Wilson did not like to go to school. In his high school he was unjustly accusedof plagiarizing a paper on Napoleon because his history teacher did not believe an AfricanAmerican could write such a good
thesis. After dropping from high school, Wilson began tohang out in the streets and bars. Those special experiences help Wilson know more aboutAfrican Americans, their language, their “street wise” and their their insufficiency, whichlater benefit Wilson’s writing a lot. Wilson gets himself graduated from public libraries. Andfrom his reading about Negroes, he gets to know that the black are different from the white.
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I Appealing for Black Unification
1.1 The Great Mi
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