Moving Target: Theatre Translation and Cultural Relocation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900650274 ISBN 13: 9781900650274

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Moving Target offers a rigorous exploration of the practice of translating for the theatre. The twelve essays in the volume span a range of work from Eastern and Western Europe, Canada and the United States. For the first time, this book draws together existing translation theory with contemporary practice to shed light on a hitherto neglected aspect of the production process. How does the theatre translator mediate between source text, performance text and target audience? What happens when theatre is transposed from one culture to another? What are the obstacles to theatre translation, and what are the opportunities?

Central to the debate throughout is the role of the translator in creating not only a linguistic text but also a performance text, as the contributors repeatedly demonstrate an illuminating sensibility to the demands and potential of theatre production. Impacting upon areas of (inter)cultural theory as well as theatre studies and translation studies, the result is a startling revelation of the joys, as well as the frustrations of the dramatic art of the translator for performance.

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About the Author

Upton, Carole-Ann

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1900650274
• ISBN 13: 9781900650274
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Upton Carole-Ann