Contemporary Performance Translation

Jean Graham-Jones is Lucille Lortel Professor of Theatre at the City University of New York's Graduate Center. A theatre artist and scholar, she has translated into English some two dozen plays by Argentinian artists (in five edited collections) and published widely on Latin American (especially Argentinian) theatre and performance.

• Introduction: translationality and the impossible necessity of contemporary performance translation; 1. Translationality in performance; 2. The over-translated, the under-translated, the untranslatable, and the limits of performance translation; 3. Translationality and the 'Atypical Actor' in performance; 4. Translationality and the decolonial gesture in performance; Conclusion: The Translator as Coyote-Scholar / Teacher / Artist, Translationally; Bibliography; Index.

'This is a book that is imbued with intellectual and creative generosity, taking the reader on a journey through Graham-Jones's practice that, as the title suggests, challenges ways of thinking about performance and translation, and proposes ways in which we enact translation knowledge and practice in different environments. … The book is full of inspiring instances of how to move beyond the textual in translation and is translational in its agile movement across disciplines and practice and its evidencing of the complexity, challenges and potential of the approach. The book is a fascinating and enlightening account of a life's work as educator, academic, translator, performer, theatre spectator, all of which feed into the experiences from which the analysis arises.' Catherine Boyle, The Mercurian