Performing the politics of translation in modern Japan
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the ways in which translation, theater, and political activism interacted in Japan from the standpoint of two key opposition political movements between the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the end of World War II. As such, it is an attempt to bridge gaps between fields of study represented by the diverse triad of theater, translation, and political theory. I seek to explain the importance of translation in the theatrical and political worlds of prewar Japan. Conventional scholarship on the modernization of Japanese theater usually tracks its development from within the theatrical world. By contrast, my approach explores politically charged performances in both traditional and non-traditional performance spaces in order to uncover the way their interaction influenced the formation and development of modern theater. I examine the influence of political, para-theatrical activity that involved translated texts and concepts in the context of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement of the 1870s and 1880s and the Proletarian Movement of the 1920s and 1930s.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Quinn, Aragorn |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. |
| Primary advisor | Levy, Indra A |
| Thesis advisor | Levy, Indra A |
| Thesis advisor | Carter, Steven D |
| Thesis advisor | Reichert, Jim (James Robert) |
| Thesis advisor | Takeuchi, Melinda |
| Thesis advisor | Yoshihara, Yukari |
| Advisor | Carter, Steven D |
| Advisor | Reichert, Jim (James Robert) |
| Advisor | Takeuchi, Melinda |
| Advisor | Yoshihara, Yukari |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Aragorn Quinn. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Aragorn Quinn
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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