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Title:	打造渥坦貝克《吾國吾民》中之擬像世界 Building A Simulacrum in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good
Authors:	吳亭彣 Wu, Ting-Wen
Contributors:	楊麗敏 Yang, Lin-Min 吳亭彣 Wu, Ting-Wen
Keywords:	渥坦貝克《吾國吾民》尚．布希亞擬仿物擬像歷史劇場符號意象 Timberlake Wertenbaker Our Country`s Good Jean Baudrillard Simulacrum Simulation History Theatre Sign Image
Date:	2020
Issue Date:	2020-09-02 11:34:21 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	本論文旨在運用尚．布希亞之擬仿物以及擬像理論，探討渥坦貝克的劇本《吾國吾民》裡劇場中之擬像。以殖民地之史實以及原著小說《造戲者》為根據，渥坦貝克將事實與虛構、歷史與故事交織在《吾國吾民》劇場中。在拷貝與複製的世代裡，歷史在不斷地重新書寫的過程中，已不再是起源，而是循環再生。歷史的軌跡被現今所懷舊追溯，進而被擬仿，成為在影視/劇場裡所呈現的符號和意象。在歷史跟虛構之間模糊的界線之中，超現實取代歷史成為事實，劇場進而成為一個擬仿物。因此，渥坦貝克的翻譯或是改編，無論是小說改編為劇本，亦或者是從語言系統嚴謹的書寫轉譯成無邊無際的符號意象，都被視為是改寫的一種形式，並且為歷史注入活力以及自主。本論文探求擬像於《吾國吾民》中之形構過程。在劇中，為了正統化威權統治，掌握權威的軍官們設立劇場。另一方面，囚犯們透過演戲與變裝，掌握了所扮演的角色中的符號與意象，進而建立起擬仿世界中之劇場，削弱威權勢力。擬像透過操控符號，以提供更多元的歷史詮釋。透過重新書寫以及擬仿，渥坦貝克從後現代的角度重新檢視歷史，並賦予其新的定義。 This thesis aims at exploring simulation in the theatre in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good with Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulacrum and simulation. Writing the play based on the colonial history and the original fiction The Playmaker, Wertenbaker interweaves the fact and fiction, history and story into the theatre. In the age of copying and reduplicating, history is circulated rather than originate in the process of indefinitely rewriting. The track of history is retrospective and further simulated in the cinema/theatre with signs and images.Therefore, Wertenbaker’s translation or adaptation, from fiction to theatre, from the written language in fixed system to the boundlessness of signs, is the form of rewriting, inserting dynamic and autonomy into history. This thesis will probe into the processes of simulation in Our Country’s Good.The theatre becomes the officers’ political strategy to legitimize their orthodox of the authority. On the other hand, the convicts’ manipulation of the signs and images of their roles by acting and cross-dressing creates a theatre of simulacrum to undermine the power. Simulation, with the absence of the origin, provides history with multiplicity of decipherments by manipulating signs. By rewriting and simulating history, Wertenbaker reexamines history in the postmodern discourse and endows the new definition to history.
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Description:	碩士國立政治大學英國語文學系 104551010
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DOI:	10.6814/NCCU202001205
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