認識當代非洲劇場：身份、社會與全球化
Understanding Contemporary African Theatre: Identity, Society and Globalization日期 Date：2017年11月7日
時間Time：3:00pm – 5:00pm
地點Venue：香港中文大學 大學圖書館地庫進學園
Learning Garden, LG/F University Library, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
（香港中文大學文化及宗教研究系助理教授 ）
（Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK）
講者Speaker：艾曼紐．薩摩．丹竇拉教授 Prof. Emmanuel Samu Dandaura
（國際演藝評論家協會副主席；奈薩拉瓦州立大學（位於尼日利亞凱菲）戲劇及文化研究系教授）
（Vice President, International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC); Professor, Department of Theatre and Cultural Studies, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria）
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摘要 Abstract
在非洲傳統社會，戲劇是一套行之有效的文化機制，人們藉此協商、確立和談論社群身份。戲劇提供品德行為的社教化、教育和規範的重要參照。隨著殖民主義席捲非洲，新形式的娛樂方式隨之而來，與土著的非洲戲劇形式並存。晚近全球化興起，衝擊長久以來的社群身份和社會關係的模式，為文化秩序帶來更大的挑戰。伴隨現代科技，後現代主義消費習慣、奇觀與歐洲中心主義的刻板印象進佔非洲城市的百姓平民家。非洲人因此面對文化失焦、身份危機、經濟剝削、非人性化生活，以及低度發展等種種情況。當代非洲戲劇人以不同方式回應隨著殖民主義、全球化和不良管治而生的文化負評、帝國剝削和不長足的發展。非洲諸眾社會在傳統、歷史和文化價值上明顯地有別於其他文明，是次演講將探討全球化在有系統地抹殺此等價值中的角色。此外，講者會叩問在全球化威脅非洲身份本色和古老社會價值、歐洲霸權佔優的情境下，當代非洲劇場如何尋找定位。最後，講者質疑非洲文化不利於發展的空洞說法，並提出文化實為非洲的其中一個優勢，人類社會將因此大為受益。
In traditional African societies, theatre functioned as an effective cultural mechanism through which group identities were negotiated, framed and communicated. Theatre provided the critical arena for socialization, education, and regulation of human conducts. With the advent of colonialism, new entertainment forms were introduced, which now cohabit with indigenous African theatre modes. Later, globalization emerged to pose greater challenge to the already distorted cultural order by diffusing or out-rightly dislodging long established group identities and patterns of social relations. Through modern technologies, post-modernist consumption habits, spectacles and Eurocentric stereotypes are transmitted directly into the living rooms of urbanized Africans. This has exposed Africans to cultural disorientation, identity crises, economic exploitation, dehumanization, and underdevelopment. Contemporary African dramatists and theatre makers have responded in different ways to this challenge of cultural denigration, imperialist exploitation and stunted development occasioned first by colonialism, globalization and bad governance. This seminar examines the role of globalization in the systematic obliteration of traditions, histories, and cultural values that define African societies as distinct from other intervening civilizations. It interrogates how contemporary African theatre negotiates the threat posed by globalization to authentic African identities and age-long societal values in favor of European hegemony. The conclusion challenges the blanket framing of African culture as antithetical to development; rather it identifies culture as one of the areas Africa has comparative advantage, which humanity could derive benefits from.
關於講者About Speaker
艾曼紐．薩摩．丹竇拉教授是一位多產的學者、劇場／電影評論人、導演和編劇。現為國際演藝評論家協會副主席，亦是該協會的尼日利亞分會主席，以及奈薩拉瓦州立大學（位於尼日利亞凱菲）戲劇及文化研究系教授和創系主任。他同時擔任國際演藝評論家協會（尼日利亞分會）出版的《尼日利亞電影評論》（Nigerian Film Review）和《尼日利亞表演藝術評論》（Nigeria Performing Arts Review）的主編，亦曾以導演或創意顧問的身份參與多個非洲藝術節。
過去三十年，丹竇拉教授一直身兼導演和管理顧問，其團隊曾連續五年於尼日利亞的年度國立藝術文化節獲得Presidential Gong。他現時為尼日利亞中部的Nzeh Mada Festival總監、尼日利亞大學生戲劇藝術節董事會主席，更是國際演藝評論家協會國際行政委員會的首位非洲成員。關於丹竇拉教授的更多資訊，請瀏覽：http://www.iatc.com.hk/doc/100870。
Emmanuel Samu Dandaura, PhD, is a widely published scholar, theatre/film critic, director, and playwright. He is Vice-President of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC), President of IATC, Nigerian section; theatre professor and foundation chair, Department of Theatre and Cultural Studies, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria. He also is editor-in-chief of Nigeria Film Review and Nigeria Performing Arts Review, both published by IATC, Nigerian section, and has in the past served as director/creative consultant to many festivals in Africa.
In the last three decades, Prof. Dandaura remains the only director and managing consultant, whose contingent has won the coveted Presidential Gong for five consecutive years at the annual National Festival of Arts & Culture (NAFEST) in Nigeria. He is the current festival director, Nzeh Mada Festival in central Nigeria and chairman board of trustees of the Nigerian Universities Theatre Arts Student Festival (NUTAF). Prof. Dandaura is the first ever African member of the international executive committee of the IATC.
More information is available at http://www.iatc.com.hk/doc/100870
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