Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Japan: Native Voices Foreign Bodies

ISBN-13: 9781905763115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 168 str.

Curran, Beverley

Opis

What motivates a Japanese translator and theatre company to translate and perform a play about racial discrimination in the American South? What happens to a 'gay' play when it is staged in a country where the performance of gender is a theatrical tradition? What are the politics of First Nations or Aboriginal theatre in Japanese translation and 'colour blind' casting? Is a Canadian no drama that tells a story of the Japanese diaspora a performance in cultural appropriation or dramatic innovation?In looking for answers to these questions, Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Japan extends discussions of theatre translation through a selective investigation of six Western plays, translated and staged in Japan since the 1960s, with marginalized tongues and bodies at their core."

O autorze

Beverley Curran teaches linguistic, cultural, and media translation at Aichi Shukutoku University in Nagoya, Japan. Her articles have appeared in several collections and journals, including Canadian Literature and The Theatre Journal, and she collaborated on the Japanese translation of Nicole Brossard’s Journal Intime. She is the current editor of the Journal of Irish Studies.