Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language : Politics, Translations, Embodiments /: Politics, Translations, Embodiments. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain.
• Editors: Fischer-Lichte, Erika; Jost, Torsten; Jain, Saskya Iris
• Contents: List of Figures Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Reflections on the Politics and Philosophy of Language in Performance ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE PART I: Politics 1. The Politics of Translation: Notes towards an African Language Policy NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O 2. English is an African Language – Ka Dupe! For and against Ngũgĩ BIODUN JEYIFO 3. Doing Things with Words: Indonesian Paralanguage and Performance HYPATIA VOURLOUMIS 4. Speech Politics: Performing Political Scripts ANANDA BREED PART II: Translations 5. Cultural Interweaving and Translation: Three Iconic Moments in Indian Theater, 1859–1979 APARNA DHARWADKER 6. The Translational Politics of Surtitling: Lola Arias’s Campo minado/Minefield JEAN GRAHAM-JONES 7. Staging an Alternative Theatrical Modernity: From Modern Literary Drama to Theatrical Speech Acts in Malayalam B. ANANTHAKRISHNAN 8. The Task of Theatrical Translation: Second-hand Speech Acts in Contemporary Performances ADAM CZIRAK PART III: Embodiments 9. Transmitting Voice Pedagogy: Interweaving Korean P’ansori and Contemporary Modes of Anglo-American Voice Training TARA MCALLISTER-VIEL 10. The Female Voice in Egyptian Theater: Between Traditions of Muting and the New Waves of Revolution NORA AMIN 11. Words that Dance / Words that Fight: Locating Speech Acts in Hip-Hop Theater RAMONA MOSSE Epilogue: Restoration as Re-creation: The Performative Role of the Word in the Context of Thai Culture CHETANA NAGAVAJARA Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (246 pages), (12 illustrations)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000027068; 1000027066
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