1st Edition
Theatre Translation Theory and Performance in Contemporary Japan Native Voices Foreign Bodies
By Beverley Curran
Copyright 2014
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 nô drama that... Read more
Introduction, Beverley Curran; Chapter 1 How Do You Say ‘Mister Charlie’ in Japanese?, Beverley Curran; Chapter 2 Speaking Lily-White, Beverley Curran; Chapter 3 Is the ‘Rez’ in The Rez Sisters the same ‘Rez’ in Rezubian?, Beverley Curran; Chapter 4 The Limits of Aboriginal Theatre Translation, Beverley Curran; Chapter 5 Translating Nô: Daphne Marlatt's The Gull, Beverley Curran;
Biography
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.
