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The process of translation restores the materiality of time and space to a play. Performance, of course, takes place only within the here and now of an audience, but a play that comes from a different time or different place prompts an encounter with the conceptual and perceptual real from sometime...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Johnston, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:93609
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/93609
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Translation practice
Performance
Otherness
Translation ethics
Cultural assimilation
Pràctica de la traducció
Representació teatral
Alteritat
Ètica de la traducció
Assimilació cultural
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Sumario:The process of translation restores the materiality of time and space to a play. Performance, of course, takes place only within the here and now of an audience, but a play that comes from a different time or different place prompts an encounter with the conceptual and perceptual real from sometime or somewhere else. If we are to consider translation as an ethical practice, one concerned not only to present the dislocated other to the located self, but also to protect the displaced other from wholesale appropriation by the self, then the translated play must in some ways prove resistant to such assimilation. But of course the retention of foreignness - or what Steiner called restitution- is problematic, not least because of the attendant danger of merely exoticising. The theatre of García Lorca in English presents an interesting case study in this regard.