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Publication details [#12150]

Doyle, Maria-Elena. 2000. A gesture to indicate a presence: translation, dialect and Field Day Theatre Company's quest for an Irish identity. In Simon, Sherry and Paul St-Pierre, eds. Changing the terms: translating in the postcolonial era (Perspectives on Translation). Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. pp. 167–186.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Keywords
context=socio-political context | dialect | identity | literary translation | postcolonialism=colonialism | theatre
Target language
Gaelic
Person as a subject
Friel, Brian
Title as subject
Translations

Abstract

The article deals with the role of translation and dialect in defining identity. The author looks at the example of the Field Day Theatre Company and its production of Brian Friel's play Translations and its role in the quest for an Irish identity.
Source : A. Matthyssen