Appropriations of Irish Drama in Modern Korean Nationalist Theatre

This book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the colonised.

By tracing the process of the importation and appropriation of Irish drama in colonial Korea, this study shows how the intervention of the competing agents - both the colonisers and the colonised - formulates the strategies of representation or empowerment in the rival claims of the translation field.

This exploration will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance studies, translation studies, and Asian studies.

List of contents

List of Tables
Introduction

1. The Modern Korean Theatre Movement and Western Drama


2. Irish Drama in Modern Korean Theatre under Colonialism


3. The Strange Case of Sean O’Casey


4. Appropriation of Irish Plays and the Early Korean Realistic Plays

Conclusion
Index

About the author

Hunam Yun is a translator and scholar of translation studies. She holds an M.A. and a PhD in translation studies from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Her research topics include literary translation, globalisation and translation, translation of the city, and translation theory.

Summary

By tracing the process of the importation and appropriation of Irish drama in colonial Korea, this book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the colonised.

Product details

• Authors: Hunam Yun
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780367757755
• ISBN: 978-0-367-75775-5
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Performing Arts, HISTORY / Asia / General, PERFORMING ARTS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, DRAMA / Asian / General, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, Theatre Studies