「한 병사의 극」에 나타난 흑인공동체의 문제:진정한 다원주의 사회의 실현을 위한 과제

Black Community Presented in Charles Fuller ’ s A Soldier ’ s Play

This paper aims to define Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play as the positive attempts to make subjective relationships with American society. In this study, Fuller’s devotion to presenting facts from the perspective of African Americans is defined as his efforts to break white America’s prejudices against black community. To do this, Baraka’s critique on Fuller’s plays are closely examined. Baraka attacks A Soldier’s Play and Negro Ensemble Company in general as “a house slave’s theater” or “bourgeois double-talk” assisting the white America rather than helping the black community. Baraka’s condemnation, however, misses its point because Fuller attempts to form new subjective relationships with American society by focusing not on black-white confrontation or rebelling against hostile social environment but on the examination of the moral dilemma of the black community and breaking preconceived ideas and prejudices of the white America. Fuller tries to do this firstly by employing the form of mystery play and then revealing intra-racial conflicts among the black community. This self-critical analysis of black community by Charles Fuller at first glance does not seem to be adequately confrontational, but is sufficiently revolutionary in suggesting the possibility of a new type of revolution by upholding the cultural values of black community and pursuing a pluralist society without hierarchy.