ABSTRACT

This essay examines how five playwrights from the global Sikh diaspora use theater to resist various forms of violence. My analysis of their plays shows how the playwrights engage with the messiness of diaspora lives, lives in which hate and state violence, domestic violence, the violence of [ongoing] colonialism, and intergenerational trauma are faced head-on -- including for the audiences of the plays and the perpetrators of violence. Through the plays, I present analyses on how experiences with violence structure our lives and on how the Sikh idea of sarbat da bhala provides a transformative and liberatory justice framework.

中文翻译：

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破布头、白人至上和暴力：橡树溪谒师所枪击事件十年后的戏剧性反思

摘要

本文探讨了来自全球锡克教侨民的五位剧作家如何利用戏剧来抵制各种形式的暴力。我对他们的戏剧的分析表明，剧作家如何应对散居海外的混乱生活，在这些生活中，仇恨和国家暴力、家庭暴力、[持续的]殖民主义暴力和代际创伤都面临着正面的挑战——包括对观众来说戏剧和暴力肇事者。通过这些戏剧，我分析了暴力经历如何构建我们的生活，以及锡克教的萨尔巴特·达巴拉思想如何提供变革性和解放性的正义框架。