The Ritualistic Narration Of August Wilson's Plays

August Wilson(August Wilson, 1945-2005) known as the following ? Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur ? Miller fourth most important American playwright, he has twice received the Poor profit-making drama award.His original "Pittsburgh drama series" with ten theater productions respectively ten decades of the twentieth century, the United States, thus metaphorically to African Americans concentrated nearly four centuries of history throughout the twentieth century.In Wilson's theatrical works, the narrative becomes ritual expression of African Americans experience writing strategies.The author uses rituals have a "social memory" feature, making it black and trauma history records are celebrities.On the one hand to illustrate the plight of African Americans living and identity lost through ritual drill. On the other hand,by the cultural roots of African mining ceremony behind point for African-American cultural identity split ends to provide survival pathway.This paper will combine the knowledge of anthropology, Fan heat with Arnold Pune "transitional ritual" as the main theory of reference, the three stages(separated threshold, polymerization) to explore the process of cultural identity and ritual development of combined efforts to tap the ceremony narrative text metaphor and transpose.At the same time, The innovation that restrict the role of liminal phase on polymerization stage, and the "rites of passage" theory meaning and symbolic meaning from the text level to social level, mining, the author's own characters and the black community in the "black", "white" two cultural strength competition to complete the construction of cultural identity.First, the "transition area" pull the whole "rites of passage" the prelude.Early 20 th century, two large-scale migration of African Americans spontaneous movement marked "separation" beginning stages.From south to north of the "transition area" to break the South's social structure and values inherent specification from the transfer of space, while also undermining the survival of northern existing pattern to some extent.Southern blacks expect to be given equal social status of freedom back into the social structure, but later moved north African Americans face a more harsh living environment.Essentially, between the south and the northern city of rural huge cross ditch.Have irreconcilable contradiction between the South for centuries of black culture and farming interests first for the biggest driving force of capitalist urban culture.Wilson these two major migratory movement as "an unsuccessful transplant culture" and is based on the cultural context of the great migration of the migration movements in the history of the translation of the works of the "exodus ceremony." On the one hand, "leaving the ceremony" in many African-American in the role of force in a series of psychological changes, troubled identity crisis.On the other hand, "leaving ceremony" along the "exodus- return" model of development, relying on dreams, witchcraft and other surreal artistic techniques to help the hero to achieve spiritual journey, so gently pointed out in the symbolic identity reconstruction the survival pathway.Secondly, the experience of "separated" phase of African-American social structure both before and phase separation, they can not be included within the new institutional structure.Black body identity, cultural identity is symbolically being suspended from society, showing instability, ambiguity, thus entering the "threshold" state.Wilson will stage this capacity to be defined by the subject unconscious, confused or even possessed state to show.Thus, the body carries moral and value judgments rumors, and was exposed to the public eye, became a place to compete for a variety of discourses of power, and individual identity will be defined according to the final result of the conflict.Multiple power for the body and the sight picture constitute a conflict, this article from the "exorcism" and "Evocation ceremony," two levels to show no consciousness of the "body" how to become a discourse in the "black", "white" culture clash competition for places of power, and how to implement identity reconstruction.Finally, individuals or groups through separate, threshold, and ultimately into the polymerization stage, back into the existing social structure, the formation of stable social identity.The text, by master calendar search, the final completion of "adult ceremony" or "regeneration ceremony", ended the split of cultural identity, the identity reconstruction. The text, from the birth of the utility of the script in ceremony.On the Wilson personally, He has black teenager discrimination in the black culture under the influence of growth for the USA mainstream drama era from a star, which in itself is an important rite of life.At the same time, in the actual process of Drama Theater of the entire American society is a more profound ceremony.On the one hand, the semi closed field formed theater provides a "sacred" space, the director, actors, theaudience, theaudience all black white ceremony participants are likely to re understanding of black culture, identity, re definition. On the other hand, the social impact caused by the theater, including social feedback mechanism for the formation of public opinion, it will directly reflect the value judgment of mainstream white America, and even the formation of public opinion, to break the power of discourse pattern has been formed. And this is the ultimate goal of the tireless efforts of Wilson, that is trying to return to their rightful place in American society and culture in the Field deserve to be derogatory or uncontrollably black culture through Pittsburgh cable TV series, so that blacks and black culture in human society the existence value has been recognized and accredited.