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Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan - Staging the Resistance (Hardcover)
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Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan - Staging the Resistance (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
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Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan sheds new
light on the adoption of concepts that motivated political theatres
of resistance for nearly a century and even now underpin the
collective understanding of the Japanese nation. Grounded in the
aftermath of the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and analyzing its legacy
on stage, this book tells the story of the crucial role that
performance and specifically embodied memory played in the changing
understanding of the imported Western concepts of "liberty" (jiyu)
and "revolution" (kakumei). Tracing the role of the
post-Restoration movement itself as an important touchstone for
later performances, it examines two key moments of political
crisis. The first of these is the Proletarian Theatre Movement of
the 1920s and '30s, in which the post-Restoration years were
important for theorizing the Japanese communist revolution. The
second is in the postwar years when Rights Movement theatre and
thought again featured as a vehicle for understanding the present
through the past. As such, this book presents the translation of
"liberty" and "revolution", not through a one-to-one correspondence
model, but rather as a many-to-many relationship. In doing so, it
presents a century of evolution in the dramaturgy of resistance in
Japan. This book will be useful to students and scholars of
Japanese history, society and culture, as well as literature and
translation studies alike.
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