This publication may be of interest to you (and apologies for such blatant
self-promotion):
The latest volume of the Routledge Advances and Theatre and Performance
Studies Series, *Translation and Adaptation in Theatre and Film *edited by
Katja Krebs, is now available.
This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich
synergies between adaptation studies and translation studies and is the
first genuine attempt to discuss the rather loose usage of the concepts of
translation and adaptation in terms of theatre and film. At the heart of
this collection is the proposition that translation studies and adaptation
studies have much to offer each other in practical and theoretical terms
and can no longer exist independently from one another. As a result, it
generates productive ideas within the contact zone between these two fields
of study, both through new theoretical paradigms and detailed case studies.
Such closely intertwined areas as translation and adaptation need to
encounter each other’s methodologies and perspectives in order to develop
ever more rigorous approaches to the study of adaptation and translation
phenomena, challenging current assumptions and prejudices in terms of both.
The book includes contributions as diverse yet interrelated as Bakhtin’s
notion of translation and adaptation, Bollywood adaptations of Shakespeare’s
* Othello*, and an analysis of performance practice, itself arguably an
adaptive practice, which uses a variety of languages from English and Greek
to British and International Sign-Language. As translation and adaptation
practices are an integral part of global cultural and political activities
and agendas, it is ever more important to study such occurrences of
rewriting and reshaping. By exploring and investigating interdisciplinary
and cross-cultural perspectives and approaches, this volume investigates
the impact such occurrences of rewriting have on the constructions and
experiences of cultures while at the same time