Abstract:

This essay uses the concept of g/locality to refine the overbroad application of the Global South to explore links between performance in Chicago, whose racial segregation prompted anti-apartheid South African exiles in the 1980s to call the city "Johannesburg by the Lake," and Johannesburg, whose combination of innovation and lawlessness has inspired writers from the 1950s to the present to dub the storied inner-city district Sophiatown the "Chicago of Johannesburg." Treating these points of comparison between Chicago and Johannesburg with due acknowledgment of the significant differences between the United States and South Africa, the essay argues that the persistence of structural racial and economic violence—violence embedded in institutions and practices—in and around Black communities despite elite claims for progressive improvements merits attention. This injustice and ongoing discrimination between affluent and deprived groups within one country or even one city has prompted activist, analytical, and theatrical responses that link, directly or indirectly, representations in South Africa and in African America. The essay will therefore lay out the contexts, past and present, of explicit as well as implied links between Chicago and Johannesburg, onstage and elsewhere, before turning to two recent plays, Exit Strategy (2014) by Ike Holter in Chicago and The Man in the Green Jacket (2013) by Eliot Moleba in Johannesburg, which highlight the shared interest by South Africans and African Americans in challenging economic injustice and structural violence wrought as much by capital speculation as by outright racism, and their impact on individuals and communities shaped the glocal pull of affluent urban centers.

摘要：

本文使用g / locality的概念来完善Global South的超宽带应用，以探索芝加哥的表演之间的联系，芝加哥的种族隔离促使19​​80年代反对种族隔离的南非流亡者称其为“约翰内斯堡湖畔”。约翰内斯堡的创新与违法行为相结合，启发了从1950年代到现在的作家，将这座传奇的内城区Sophiatown称为“约翰内斯堡的芝加哥”。在适当承认美国与南非之间的重大差异的情况下，对待芝加哥和约翰内斯堡之间的这些比较点，这篇文章认为，尽管精英人士主张逐步改善，但在黑人社区内外，结构性种族和经济暴力的持续存在（体制和实践中所包含的暴力）值得关注。一个国家甚至一个城市内的富裕群体和贫困群体之间的这种不公正和持续歧视，促使采取积极，分析和戏剧性的对策，直接或间接地将南非和非裔美国人的代表联系起来。因此，本文将介绍芝加哥和约翰内斯堡在舞台上和其他地方之间明确和隐含的联系的过去和现在的背景，然后再讨论最近的两部戏剧，直接或间接将南非和非裔美国人中的代表联系起来的分析性和戏剧性响应。因此，本文将介绍芝加哥和约翰内斯堡在舞台上和其他地方之间明确和隐含的联系的过去和现在的背景，然后再讨论最近的两部戏剧，直接或间接将南非和非裔美国人中的代表联系起来的分析性和戏剧性响应。因此，本文将介绍芝加哥和约翰内斯堡在舞台上和其他地方之间明确和隐含的联系的过去和现在的背景，然后再讨论最近的两部戏剧，芝加哥艾克·霍尔特（Ike Holter）的《退出策略》（2014）和约翰内斯堡的艾略特·莫莱巴（Eliot Moleba）的《穿绿色外套的人》（2013），强调了南非人和非洲裔美国人在挑战经济不公正和资本投机造成的结构性暴力方面的共同利益。例如完全的种族主义，以及它们对个人和社区的影响，决定了富裕的城市中心在当地的吸引力。