ABSTRACT

This paper reflects on The Maroon Project, a series of poetry and performance workshops at the Iziko Slave Lodge Museum with a group of previously-incarcerated ‘Coloured’ men. The project facilitated a process of Spillerian interior intersubjectivity toward a self-authorship that could ‘speak flesh’ by placing the carceral system under scrutiny against the legacies of slavery, positioning participants to engage with the memory of drosters – or runaway slaves. Interview data is poetically transcribed to analyse participants’ experiences of the workshop process and the culminating stage production, Maroon, which performatively blended historical narratives with personal experiences.

摘要

这篇论文反映了栗色计划，这是在 Iziko Slave Lodge 博物馆与一群以前被监禁的“有色人种”人一起举办的一系列诗歌和表演工作坊。该项目通过将监狱系统置于奴隶制遗产的审查之下，将参与者定位于与drosters或逃跑的奴隶的记忆互动，从而促进了斯皮勒式的内部主体间性向自我作者的过程，该过程可以“说话” 。访谈数据被诗意地转录，以分析参与者对车间过程和最终舞台制作Maroon 的体验，这些体验将历史叙事与个人经历进行了表演性融合。