Performance and Translation in a Global Age
Published on 29. June 2023
Book
Hardback
292 pages
978-1-009-29681-6 (ISBN)
Description
This global overview of how translation is understood as a performative practice across genres, media and disciplines illuminates the broad impact of the 'performance turn' in the arts and humanities. Combining key concepts in comparative literature, performance studies and translation theory, the volume provides readers with a dynamic account of the ways in which these fields fruitfully interact. The chapters display interdisciplinary thinking in action across a wide spectrum of performance practices and media from around the world, from poetry and manuscripts to theatre surtitles, audio description, archives, installations, dialects, movement and dance. Paying close attention to questions of race, gender, sexuality, embodiment and accessibility, the collection's rich array of methodological approaches and experiments with scholarly writing demonstrate how translation as a performative practice can enrich our understanding of language and politics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-29681-6 (9781009296816)
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Introduction: translation in motion Avishek Ganguly and Kelina Gotman; Part I. Translation as Medium and Method: 1. Medieval soundings, modern movements: histories and futures of translation and performance in Caroline Bergvall's Drift Joshua Davies; 2. Transcolonial performance: Mohamed Rouabhi and the translation of Race on the French stage Olivia C. Harrison; 3. Experiments in surtitling: performing multilingual translation live and onscreen in the contemporary theatres of Singapore, Taiwan, and Berlin Alvin Eng Hui Lim; 4. Translating an embodied gaze: theatre audio description, bodies and burlesque performance at the young vic theatre, London Eleanor Margolies and Kirstin Smith; 5. Performative accents: bilingualism, postcolonialism, Francophonie in Michele Lalonde's poster-poem 'Speak White' Kelina Gotman; Part II. Translation, Nation-State and Post-Nationalism: 6 Transembodiment as translation: Staging the Wlast/Kormornicka archive Bryce Lease; 7. Translating Triumph: the power of print and the performance of empire in early modern Europe Dan J. Ruppel; 8. From novella to theatre and opera: translating 'Otherness' in Cavalleria Rusticana Enza De Francisci; 9. Gestural archives: Transmission and embodiment as translation in occupied Palestine Farah Saleh; Part III. 'Translation at Large': dialogues on Ethics and Politics: 10. 'Translation is always not enough...' Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in conversation with Avishek Ganguly; 11. Afterword: can translation do justice? Sruti Bala.