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Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language: Politics, Translations, Embodiments
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Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language: Politics, Translations, Embodiments
Current price: $180.00
Barnes and Noble
Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language: Politics, Translations, Embodiments
Current price: $180.00
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Presenting case studies from around the globe—spanning Argentina, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand, the UK and the US—the authors explore key issues related to theatrical speech acts, such as (post)colonial language politics; histories, practices and theories of translation for/in performance; as well as practices and processes of embodiment. With scholars from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds examining theatrical speech acts—their preconditions, their cultural and bodily dimensions as well as their manifold political effects—the book introduces readers to a crucial linguistic dimension of historical and contemporary processes of interweaving performance cultures.
Ideal for drama, theater, performance, and translation scholars worldwide,
opens up a unique perspective on the transformative power of language in performance.