The Global White Snake as Digital Activist Project

L. Luo
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There is a long oral tradition and written record for the legend of the White Snake. As a woman, her “original sin” is being a snake. She is a snake who has cultivated herself for hundreds, if not thousands, of years to attain the form of a beautiful woman. Living as a resident “alien” (yilei) in the “Human Realm” (renjian), the White Snake has always been treated with suspicion, fear, exclusion, and violent suppression/exorcism. The White Snake is an immigrant to the human world, whose serpentine identity made her a “resident alien,” the legal category given to immigrants in the United States before they receive their “Green Card” and become a “permanent resident.” The implication of being a snake woman in the human world took on new meanings when the COVID-19 pandemic worsened the existing xenophobia, fear, and suspicion toward minority populations in the contemporary United States and throughout the world. Inspired by the Chinese White Snake legend, the three Anglophone opera, film, and stage projects from Cerise Lim Jacobs, Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri, and Mary Zimmerman, energetically engage with issues relevant to minority activism in the United States and more broadly, through digital media and digital platforms.
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全球白蛇作为数字活动家项目
白蛇传说有着悠久的口头传统和文字记录。作为一个女人,她的“原罪”是做一条蛇。她是一条蛇,为了成为一个美丽的女人,她已经修炼了数百年,甚至数千年。白蛇作为一个居住在“人界”(仁间)的“外星人”(伊蕾),一直受到怀疑、恐惧、排斥和暴力镇压/驱魔的对待。白蛇是人类世界的移民,其曲折的身份使她成为“外来居民”,这是美国移民在获得“绿卡”并成为“永久居民”之前获得的法律类别。当新冠肺炎疫情恶化了现有的仇外心理、恐惧、,以及对当代美国和全世界少数族裔人口的怀疑。受中国白蛇传说的启发,Cerise Lim Jacobs、Indrani Pal Chaudhuri和Mary Zimmerman的三个英语歌剧、电影和舞台项目通过数字媒体和数字平台,积极参与美国乃至更广泛的少数族裔激进主义相关问题。
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