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摘要：安德烈斯-德-克拉拉蒙特的《佛兰德斯的勇敢黑人》（El valiente negro en Flandes，约 1620 年）重塑了黑人在西班牙的形象，为黑人提供了在自由中繁衍自身的可能性。本文通过对弗朗茨-法农（Frantz Fanon）的解读，探讨了胡安-德-梅里达（Juan de Mérida）在克服黑人的社会劣根性的过程中，如何面对鸡奸的威胁。鸡奸勾起了黑人主人公对白人至上主义的恐惧。该剧的文字版本提供了两种不同的结局，一种是黑人主人公与他的前奴役者结婚，另一种是结婚场景被删除，这表明西班牙人对在一个奴役被绑架的非洲人及其后代的社会中黑人自由人口的增加感到焦虑，鸡奸表演的场景起到了象征性遏制的作用。
Andrés de Claramonte's El valiente negro en Flandes (ca. 1620) reframes the representation of Blackness in Spain, presenting the possibility for Black people to reproduce themselves in freedom. This essay, through a reading of Frantz Fanon, addresses how, in Juan de Mérida's journey to overcome the social inferiority of his Blackness, he faces the threat of sodomy. Sodomy conjures the Black protagonist's fears about white supremacy. The two different endings the textual transmission of the play offers, one in which the Black hero marries his former enslaver, and another in which the marriage scene is excised, signal the anxiety in Spain about the increased presence of a free Black population in the midst of a society that enslaved kidnapped Africans and their descendants, the scenes of sodomy performance functioning as a form of symbolic containment.
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Published semiannually by the Comediantes, an international group of scholars interested in early modern Hispanic theater, the Bulletin welcomes articles and notes in Spanish and English dealing with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century peninsular and colonial Latin American drama. Submissions are refereed by at least two specialists in the field. In order to expedite a decision.
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