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