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Rewriting narratives in Egyptian theatre : translation, performance, politics / edited by Sirkku Aaltonen and Areeg Ibrahim.

Van Pelt Library PN2974 .R49 2016
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Aaltonen, Sirkku, editor.
Ibrahim, Areeg, 1972- editor.
Series:
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 45.
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 45
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Adaptations.
Theater--Egypt--History--20th century.
Theater.
Translating and interpreting.
History.
English drama.
Arabic fiction.
Theater--Political aspects.
Egypt.
Theater--Egypt--History--21st century.
Theater--Political aspects--Egypt--History--20th century.
Theater--Political aspects--Egypt--History--21st century.
Arabic drama--Egypt--History and criticism.
Arabic drama.
Arabic fiction--Adaptations--History and criticism.
English drama--Translations into Arabic--History and criticism.
Translating and interpreting--Egypt--History--21st century.
Physical Description:
x, 288 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Contents:
Introduction / Sirkku Aaltonen and Areeg Ibrahim
Intercultural Rewriting. Perspiring translators, rowdy audiences and ignorant women: narratives of the history of Egyptian theatre / Sirkku Aaltonen
Politics of choice and cultural representation in translating Egyptian drama between two revolutions (1952-2011) / Areeg Ibrahim
Tawfiq Al-Hakim as the representative Egyptian dramatist in the West / Marvin Carlson
Performing and rewriting solitaire between languages and cultures: a practitioner's testimonial / Dalia Basiouny
Interlingual rewriting. Allusion in three translations of Hamlet into Arabic / Omaya Khalifa
Translation and dramaturgy in Egyptian performances of King Lear / Mohamed Samir Al-Khatib ; translated from Arabic by Mona Khattab
On translating Shakespeare into Arabic: a translator's testimonial / Mohamed Enani
Intercontextual rewriting. Theatre-making and theatre translation in turn-of-the-century Egypt: theatricalizing the theatre field in Muhammad Taymur's The trial of the playwrights / Sameh Hanna
From spectators to "spect-actors": all Tahrir's a stage / Heba El-Abbadi & Sally Hammouda
Egyptian realities on stage and in society / Nehad Selaiha
Intermedial rewriting. Dramatizing short stories: Yussef El Guindi's rewriting of Salwa Bakr's That beautiful undiscovered voice, and Thirty-one beautiful green trees / Salwa Rashad Amin
It is not just phonetics and aristocrats, it is sexuality and politics: the adaptation of Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in the Egyptian theatre / Wessam Elmeligi
A documentary in the making: live on stage: a century and a half of theatre in Egypt / Mona Mikhail
Afterword.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781138946446
1138946443
OCLC:
936205496

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