心理空間的建構是戲劇闡釋的重要策略之一。非裔美國戲劇家奧古斯特·威爾遜的《籬笆》突破傳統戲劇空間的藝術手法,通過視覺化、圖像化、隱喻化和詩意化策略構建了非裔美國人異化的心理空間。舞臺內空間(舞臺場景、戲劇物體)和舞臺外空間(碎片化記憶、布魯斯音樂)的并置呈現了地理空間的遷移和高度隔離化的空間環境給非裔美國人在心理空間層面帶來的無法治愈的傷痛和情感上的疏離。

The construction of psychological space is an indispensable dramatic strategy. Breaking conventional spatial techniques, African American playwright August Wilson adopts visual image and other metaphorical and poetic strategies to construct an alienated psychological space of African Americans in his play Fences. He presents the impact of spatial shift and segregated spatial environment on African Americans’ psyche by means of the juxtaposition of theatre space within(stage setting and theatrical objects) and theatre space without(fragmented memory and the blues music).