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- 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
- Part II Translation, Nation-state and Post-nationalism
- Chapter 6 Transembodiment as Translation
- Chapter 7 Translating Triumph
- Chapter 8 From Novella to Theatre and Opera
- Chapter 9 Gestural Archives
- Part III ‘Translation at Large’: Dialogues on Ethics and Politics
- Works Cited
- Index
Chapter 6 - Transembodiment as Translation
Staging the Włast/Komornicka Archive
from Part II - Translation, Nation-state and Post-nationalism
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
- Part II Translation, Nation-state and Post-nationalism
- Chapter 6 Transembodiment as Translation
- Chapter 7 Translating Triumph
- Chapter 8 From Novella to Theatre and Opera
- Chapter 9 Gestural Archives
- Part III ‘Translation at Large’: Dialogues on Ethics and Politics
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
In this chapter, I consider how translation pertains to the body on stage as a site of multiplicity and propose the term ‘transembodiment’ in my analysis of Weronika Szczawińska and Bartosz Frąckowiak’s Komornicka. Biografia pozorna (Komornicka. Ostensible biography, 2011). My intention in considering transembodiment is to analyse the effects and limitations of physical and fictional bodies as they appear within the mimetic, representational and concrete frame of the theatre space. Ultimately, I argue that the body is itself a paradigmatic site of translation, which can neither be reduced to nor fully dislodged from language, and which is both submitted to and escapes processes of mimetic representation. In this way, I do not offer transembodiment as a methodology but rather as a structure and a consequence of the process of transmission in the theatre that invites new subjects to emerge and come into being.
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- Performance and Translation in a Global Age , pp. 137 - 153Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023