摘要
当代美国剧作家山姆·谢泼德(Sam Shepard)通过对牛仔、牧场工人、荒原、赛马等西部意象的拼贴,在作品中描绘西部背景下的生活,倾诉其无法割舍的西部情结。他认为古老的西部边疆神话已经远去,今天的神话则是以电子媒介传播的大众文化。因此,谢泼德在其西部剧中反复呈现作为男性身份象征的牛仔梦想和美国精神象征的原野理想,揭示大众文化意象与社会现实的冲突,并在虚构的媒体语境中重构西部,同时将关于"真正的西部"的地域性与持久性的深度思考留给观众。
Sam Shepard,the famous contemporary American playwright,expresses his eternal emotions to the Wild West in the plays,repeating the collages of Western images as cowboys,ranchers,wilderness,horse racing and etc. As far as he is concerned,the old frontier myth has been declined,and the contemporary myth is constructed in the popular culture spread by the electronic media. Accordingly,Shepard represents the cowboy dream as the symbol of male identity and the wilderness ideal as the symbol of American spirit in his plays,reveals the conflicts between pop cultural imageries and social realities,and reconstructs the West in the fictitious media context leaving the question of the region and persistence of ＂True West＂ to the audience.
出处
《外国语文》
北大核心
2015年第6期15-20,共6页
Foreign Languages and Literature
基金
国家社会科学青年基金项目"山姆.谢泼德戏剧的男性气质研究"(12CWW031)
教育部社会科学青年基金项目"山姆.谢泼德的新现实主义戏剧研究"(12YJC752014)
四川外国语大学特别委托项目"性别身份视域下的当代美国戏剧研究"(2014zd01)
