A sociocritique of translation
Subtitle: theatre and alterity in Quebec, 1968-1988
By: Annie Brisset ; translated by Rosalind Gill and Roger Gannon.
Series: Theory/culture; Theory/culture series
Publisher: Buffalo; University of Toronto Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Translating and interpreting -- Québec (Province); Drama -- Translating.; Theater and society -- Québec (Province); French-Canadian drama -- Québec (Province) -- History and criticism.
Description: In this ground-breaking study, Annie Brisset attempts to extend the parameters of translation theory to encompass a consideration of ideology and history. Newly translated into English, the study was awarded the Ann Saddlemyer Prize in 1991 by the Association for Canadian Theatre History.

It focuses on the translation of theatrical texts in Quebec during the years 1968-88, a period marked by the search for a national identity, when foreign works were not just translated but rather 'traduit en quebecois,' in an effort to counteract the influence of the dominant English culture in Canada and of the colonial legacy of European French.

As Brisset shows, such translation was especially apparent in the developing Quebecois theatre, for drama affords a uniquely immediate link with the collective consciousness, a link that was strengthened during this period by the rise of social realist theatre in Quebec.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-232) and index.