https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/637245
標題: | Can the village speak? Leftist Assignment Theater and documentary theater in Taiwan | 作者: | CHUN-YEN WANG | 關鍵字: | Assignment Theater | Chung Chiao | documentary theater | leftist movement | people’s theater | Taiwan theater | the people | 公開日期: | 1-一月-2023 | 卷: | 24 | 期: | 6 | 來源出版物: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies | 摘要: | This essay examines the genre of documentary theater with a particular focus on environment issues by the theater group “Assignment Theater” (chaishi juchang). Chung Chiao, the founding leader of Assignment Theater, was inspired by Taiwanese leftist writer Chen Ying-zhen and began his collaboration with People’s theater groups in many Asian countries since the 1990s post-Cold war period. Chung investigates histories, social issues and current circumstances through testimonial performances and documentary dramas with villagers, aiming to develop esthetic and critical reflections on social and cultural issues. In 2016, Chung directed and produced a work of documentary theater entitled Return to Hometown: A Story of Taixi Village by focusing on how villagers were suffering from severe air pollution, marginalization, and the complexity of their experiences since the launch of the Formosa Plastics Corp’s (FPC) sixth naphtha cracker complex in 1998. The essay starts with a critical question raised by Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak” in the hope of re-locating the question in Return to Hometown. It continues to explore how Assignment Theater positions itself in the historical context of the leftist movement in post-war Taiwan by paying attention to the people. By re-examining the above, the essay discusses the ways in which environmental discourses, the village people, documentary theater, and the imagined subject of Taiwan nationality, etc. are interwoven. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/637245 | ISSN: | 14649373 | DOI: | 10.1080/14649373.2023.2265679 |
顯示於: | 華語教學碩士學位學程 |
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