尼洛·克鲁兹是美国古巴裔剧作家,其剧作《安娜在热带》摘取了2003年普利策奖,由此确立了他在美国剧坛的地位。克鲁兹继承了古巴移民作家对“古巴主题”的书写,关注拉丁美洲人民的苦难和古巴移民在美国的生存状况,旨在从社会政治历史的维度审视人性。在表现形式和主题上,他的剧作对古巴裔美国文学既有继承又有突破,融合了现实主义主题和魔幻手法,集中展现传统价值和现代观念的矛盾以及古巴文化和美国文化的冲突与协商,凸显出少数族裔文学政治诉求。克鲁兹作为出生在古巴、成长于美国的剧作家,他创作中的跨文化主题以及他对族裔文化的继承和突破是一种文化夹缝中的书写策略,在当今美国少数族裔剧坛具有一定的代表性。 Nile Cruz is a Cuban-American playwright, whose play “Anna in the tropics” won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, thus establishing his position in the American theater. Cruz inherited Cuban immigrant writers ’writing on “Cuban themes,” focusing on the suffering of Latin American people and the Cuban immigrants’ living conditions in the United States, aiming to examine human nature from the perspective of social-political history. On the form and theme of his works, his plays inherit and make breakthroughs in Cuban-American American literature. They combine the theme of realism with magical techniques to show the contradiction between traditional values ​​and modern concepts as well as the conflict and negotiation between Cuban culture and American culture , Highlighting the political appeal of minority literature. As a playwright born in Cuba and growing up in the United States, Cruz’s cross-cultural themes in his creations and his inheritance and breakthrough in ethnic cultures are a kind of writing strategy in the cultural gap. In today’s U.S. minority theater, Cruz has a certain Representative.