Book contents
- Performance and Translation in a Global Age
- Theatre and Performance Theory
- Performance and Translation in a Global Age
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Translation as Medium and Method
- Chapter 1 Medieval Soundings, Modern Movements
- Chapter 2 Transcolonial Performance
- Chapter 3 Experiments in Surtitling
- Chapter 4 Translating an Embodied Gaze
- Chapter 5 Performative Accents
- Part II Translation, Nation-state and Post-nationalism
- Part III ‘Translation at Large’: Dialogues on Ethics and Politics
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 1 - Medieval Soundings, Modern Movements
Histories and Futures of Translation and Performance in Caroline Bergvall’s Drift
from Part I - Translation as Medium and Method
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2023
- Performance and Translation in a Global Age
- Theatre and Performance Theory
- Performance and Translation in a Global Age
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Translation as Medium and Method
- Chapter 1 Medieval Soundings, Modern Movements
- Chapter 2 Transcolonial Performance
- Chapter 3 Experiments in Surtitling
- Chapter 4 Translating an Embodied Gaze
- Chapter 5 Performative Accents
- Part II Translation, Nation-state and Post-nationalism
- Part III ‘Translation at Large’: Dialogues on Ethics and Politics
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Caroline Bergvall’s Drift was produced as text, performance and gallery installation between 2012 and 2014. An Old English poem that survives in a single manuscript dated to around the year 1000, ‘The Seafarer’, is one of the beginnings of the project. Drift features translations and rewritings of ‘The Seafarer’ and uses it to chart global transfers – of language, texts, ideas and people – across space and time. This chapter explores how Drift meditates on the personal and political translations that structure our knowledge of the past and present, and how Bergvall marks out the temporal possibilities and ethical limits of movement across and between times and languages.
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- Performance and Translation in a Global Age , pp. 31 - 47Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023