Racial Trauma in Topdog/Underdog
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摘要
The 2002 Pulitzer winner Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks presents us a predestined life story of two young AfricanAmericans Lincoln and Booth. In the play, the difficulties in accommodating individual trauma and the"unspeakable"collectivetrauma inflicted by racism overwhelm Lincoln and Booth and eventually destroy their identities.
The 2002 Pulitzer winner Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks presents us a predestined life story of two young AfricanAmericans Lincoln and Booth. In the play, the difficulties in accommodating individual trauma and the"unspeakable"collectivetrauma inflicted by racism overwhelm Lincoln and Booth and eventually destroy their identities.
The 2002 Pulitzer winner Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks presents us a predestined life story of two young AfricanAmericans Lincoln and Booth. In the play, the difficulties in accommodating individual trauma and the"unspeakable"collectivetrauma inflicted by racism overwhelm Lincoln and Booth and eventually destroy their identities.
引文
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[3]Caruth,Cathy.Trauma:Explorations in Memory[M].Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press,1997.
[4]Erikson,Kai.Everything in Its Path[M].New York:Simon and Schuster,1976.
[5]Herman,Judith.Trauma and Recovery:from Domestic Violence to Political Terror[M].New York:Basic Books,1997.
[6]Luckhurst,Roger.The Trauma Question[M].London:Routledge,2008.
[7]Parks,Suzan-Lori.Topdog/Underdog[M].New York:Theatre Communications Group,2002.
[8]Zhu,Xuefeng,and Liu Haiping.British and American Drama:Plays and Criticisms[M].Shanghai:Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press,2012.