Performance and Translation in a Global Age

A window onto new and innovative thinking in performance theory, comparative literature and translation across genres and internationally.

This global overview illuminates the broad impact of the 'performance turn' in the arts and humanities, showing how translation emerges as a performative practice that enriches our understanding of language and politics. An essential collection for scholars and students of theatre and performance, translation and comparative literature.This global overview of how translation is understood as a performative practice across genres, media and disciplines illuminates the broad impact of the 'performance turn' in the arts and humanities. Combining key concepts in comparative literature, performance studies and translation theory, the volume provides readers with a dynamic account of the ways in which these fields fruitfully interact. The chapters display interdisciplinary thinking in action across a wide spectrum of performance practices and media from around the world, from poetry and manuscripts to theatre surtitles, audio description, archives, installations, dialects, movement and dance. Paying close attention to questions of race, gender, sexuality, embodiment and accessibility, the collection's rich array of methodological approaches and experiments with scholarly writing demonstrate how translation as a performative practice can enrich our understanding of language and politics.