约翰·辛格通过他的文学作品参与到19、20世纪之交有关爱尔兰西部的文化想象中。一方面,辛格的戏剧拒绝了与帝国话语的共谋关系,颠覆了人类学研究中常见的自我/他者、观察者/被观察者的不平等权力关系,赋予了人类学研究中的失语的土著他者以能动性和主体地位,体现了抵抗文化的特点。另一方面,辛格在语言、宗教和女性形象等方面挑战了狭隘民族主义者构筑的西部形象,表达了英-爱文人希望拓宽爱尔兰性的文化诉求。而叶芝和考克利,两人虽然在对英-爱文学的评价上持截然相反的立场,都选中了辛格作为阐述其文学标准的代表。这种抢夺证明了辛格重新塑造爱尔兰西部的行为的政治性和重要性。 Through his literary works, John Singh participated in the cultural imagination of western Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries. On the one hand, Singh’s plays rejected the conspiratorial relationship with the imperial discourse, subverted the unequal power relations of the ego / other, observer / observer common in anthropological studies, and gave aphasia in anthropological studies The indigenous others, with their initiative and subjective status, embody the characteristics of resistance culture. On the other hand, Singh challenges the western image built by narrow-minded nationalists in terms of language, religion and femininity and expresses the cultural appeal of the British-English literary man who hopes to broaden the Irish character. While Yeats and Cocley, both of whom held diametrically opposite positions on the evaluation of British-English literature, Singh selected Singh as a representative of his literary standards. This snatch proves the political and important role of Singh in reshaping the behavior in western Ireland.