이중 관객 문제와 미국 흑인 연극: 로레인 핸즈베리의 『태양 아래 건포도』와 어거스트 윌슨의 『울타리』

The Problem of Double Audience and African American Drama : Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and August Wilson’s Fences

This paper looks into the problem of double audience, a unique problem to African American playwrights who have been marginalized in American society. African American playwrights have to choose, as their main audience, either black or white audience, and such selection has serious implications for their writing. When they choose a white audience, they have to deal with what is called “the limitation of the white audience.” Some scholars believe (or pretend to believe) that the double audience problem was dissolved by the late 1960s. This article challenges such a belief by locating and analyzing revisions forced by the limitation of the white audience in the scripts of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and of August Wilson’s Fences.