On (Not) Waiting for Godot: Absurdity and Action in Mississippi

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

AMERICAN LITERATURE Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI:10.1215/00029831-10345449

Paige Mcginley

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Abstract

This article traces the reinvention and circulation of existential thought and action through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the first half of the 1960s, especially in Mississippi. Here, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, and the founders of the Free Southern Theater, among others, immersed themselves in the existential questions of freedom and responsibility, pointing the way toward ethical action at a time when there was, as the characters of the FST’s production of Waiting for Godot put it, ”nothing to be done.“

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《等待戈多:密西西比的荒诞与行动

本文追溯了20世纪60年代上半叶，特别是在密西西比州，通过学生非暴力协调委员会(Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)，存在主义思想和行动的重新发明和循环。在这里，范尼·卢·哈默(Fannie Lou Hamer)、鲍勃·摩西(Bob Moses)和自由南方剧院(Free Southern Theater)的创始人，以及其他人，沉浸在自由和责任的存在主义问题中，正如FST制作的《等待戈多》(Waiting for Godot)中的人物所说的那样，在“无事可做”的时候，为道德行动指明了方向。"

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AMERICAN LITERATURE LITERATURE, AMERICAN-

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0.60

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