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UCL Mellon Programme: Interdisciplinary Seminar 2006-2007

Seminar: 28 February 2007

Professor Lorna Hardwick, Department of Classical Studies, The Open University. More ...

Translating Classical Texts in Postcolonial Contexts: Shades of Multi-Vocalism.

This paper will examine strategies of translation underlying text and
performance in modern productions of Greek drama in postcolonial
contexts. I shall examine two rather different examples. The first
focuses on the relationship between multi-lingualism and the semiotics
of staging in the context of community drama in postcolonial Britain and
will discuss the interaction between verbal and non-verbal elements of
translation to the stage and their impact on the performative
construction of identities. The second example will analyse translation
techniques and the braiding of language in Irish responses to Greek
drama. I shall suggest that taken together these examples remap the
categories of inter-cultural and intra-cultural in translation as well
as in performance.

Related references and resources, see also Professor Hardwick's web page, more ...

Translations/versions :

Philip de May, 2003, Agamemnon (Aeschylus), Cambridge University Press

Seamus Heaney, 2004, The Burial at Thebes (Sophocles’ Antigone), Faber

Blake Morrison, 2003, Oedipus and Antigone (Sophocles), Northern Broadsides.

Ola Rotimi, 1971, The Gods are not to Blame, Oxford University Press.

References:

M. Cronin, 1996, Translating Ireland, Cork University Press

S. Deane, 1991-, (intr. and ed.), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Field Day

P. France (ed.), 2000, The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, Oxford University Press

L. Hardwick, 2000, Translating Words, Translating Cultures, Duckworth

L. Hardwick, 2005, ‘Staging Agamemnon: the Languages of Translation’, in F Macintosh et al (eds), Agamemnon in Performance 458BC – AD 2004, Oxford University Press, 207 – 221

L. Hardwick, 2006, ‘Remodelling Receptions: Greek Drama as Diaspora in Performance’ in C Martindale and R Thomas (eds.), Classics and the Uses ofReception, Blackwell, 204 - 215

W.. Harris, 2001, ‘Theatre of the Arts’, in Anshuman Mondal (ed.), British Braids: The Selected Proceedings of the Conference at Brunel University. EnterText 2/1. Brunel University
< http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~acsrrrm/entertext/issue_2_1.htm >

M. McDonald and J.M. Walton (eds.), 2002, Amid our Troubles: Irish versions of GreekTragedy, London

F. Osofisan, 1998, ‘The Revolution as Muse’. Drama as surreptitious insurrection in a post-colonial military state’ in R Boon and J Plasow (eds.), Theatre Matters: Performance and Culture on the World Stage, Cambridge University Press, 11–35

F. Osofisan, 1999, ‘Theatre and the rites of post-negritude remembering’, Research inAfrican Literatures, 30/1, 1-11

G. Steiner, 1992, After Babel, Oxford University Press (2nd edition)

L. Venuti, 2008, forthcoming, ‘Translation, interpretation and canon formation’, in A Lianeri and V Zajko (eds), Translation and the Idea ofthe Classic, Oxford University Press

J. Michael Walton, 2006, Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English, Cambridge University Press

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