‘Let your indulgence set me free’: reflections on an ‘Africanised’ Tempest and its implications for critical practice

A joint production of The Tempest by Stratford’s Royal Shakespeare Company and Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre raises questions about the possibilities, and difficulties, of the deliberate ‘Africanisation’ of Shakespeare. I argue that the discursive fields within which ‘Shakespeare’ and ‘Africa’ are read carry significations that preclude easy acknowledgement. I consider the interpretative function an unapologetic, celebratory ‘Africa’ performs when it is put in conversation with canonical Shakespeare. Drawing on Terence Hawkes’s notion of ‘presentism’, I argue that in its effects this particular staging gives life both to the partisan discourse of public forgiveness in South Africa and to the powerful figure of ‘Shakespeare’. An African Tempest that engages the discourse of forgiveness allows ‘Shakespeare’ to share in the sociality invoked by ubuntu. Post‐apartheid theatre would do better to resist a post‐Truth and Reconciliation Commission hope of transcendence and an iconic ‘Shakespeare’. However, it may take great boldness to claim the latitude with which to trespass beyond an apparently familiar ‘Africa’ and an uninterrogated ‘Shakespeare’. The cultural legacies of ‘Shakespeare’ and ‘Africa’ need to be treated with the kind of unflinching critique of self and society that Edward Said deems central to the work of the humanities.     

整合视野下宽恕心理的概念厘定与研究展望

随着积极心理学的兴起,对宽恕心理的研究日益受到关注。为了强调宽恕作为积极心理学中的重要概念,在人们面对社会冲突情景中能够起到的积极作用,文章在梳理人际宽恕、自我宽恕和寻求宽恕等概念,的基础上,提出了广义的、整合的宽恕概念,澄清了宽恕心理的主要误区,总结了有关宽恕影响因素、与健康关系及相关干预的研究进展,并提出了相应的研究展望。     

共情对网络利他行为的影响：宽恕的中介作用

目的:调查研究共情对当代青年网络利他行为的影响以及宽恕在两者之间是否存在中介作用。方法:采用中文版人际反应指针量表,Hearland宽恕量表与网络利他行为量表对461名青年展开问卷调查。结果:青年宽恕、共情以及网络利他行为之间两两显著正相关;青年的共情和宽恕水平都对网络利他行为有正向预测作用,且宽恕在共情与网络利他行为中起部分中介作用。结论:共情能直接影响网络利他行为,也能通过影响宽恕而间接影响网络利他行为;宽恕在共情对网络利他行为的影响中起部分中介效应。