The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages

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Erika Fischer-Lichte (Free University of Berlin, Germany) Torsten Jost (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages

Erika Fischer-Lichte (Free University of Berlin, Germany), Torsten Jost (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), Astrid Schenka

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31 May 2024

Performance art; Language Teaching (non-ELT); Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Investigating more than 70 key concepts relating to the performing arts in more than six non-European languages, this volume provides a groundbreaking research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for theatre, performance and dance studies worldwide.

The Companion features in-depth explorations of and expert introductions to a select number of performance-related key concepts in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Yorùbá as well as the Indian languages Sanskrit, Hindi and Tamil. Key concepts—such as Furǧa فرجة in Arabic, for example, or Jiadingxing 假定性 in Chinese, Gei 芸 in Japanese, Ìparadà in Yorùbá and Imyeon 이면 in Korean—that defy easy translation from one language to another (and especially into English as the world’s lingua franca) and that reflect culturally specific ways of thinking and talking about the performing arts are thoroughly examined in in-depth articles. Written by more than 60 distinguished scholars from around the globe, the articles describe in detail each concept’s dynamic history, its flexible scope of meaning and current range of usage. The Companion also includes extensive introductions to each language section, in which internationally renowned experts explain how the presented key concepts are situated within, and are constitutive of, distinct and dynamic epistemic systems that have different yet always interlinked histories and orientations.

Offers a fascinating insight into the unique histories, characteristics, and orientations of linguistically and culturally distinct epistemic systems related to the performative arts Contains extensive cross-references and bibliographies An invaluable research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for scholars and students worldwide and across the humanities, especially in the fields of theatre, performance, dance, translation, area and cultural studies An accessible handbook for everybody interested in performance cultures and performance-related knowledge systems existing in the world today.

This volume provides an invaluable research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for scholars and students worldwide and across the humanities, especially in the fields of theatre, performance, dance, translation and area studies, history (of science and the humanities) and cultural studies.

Edited by: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Free University of Berlin Germany), Torsten Jost (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany), Astrid Schenka
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.400kg
ISBN: 9780367696702
ISBN 10: 0367696703
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 642
Publication Date: 31 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Erika Fischer-Lichte is the director of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin. Torsten Jost is an academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” at Freie Universität Berlin. Astrid Schenka is a performing arts scholar, dramaturg and translator. She was a research associate at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at the Freie Universität Berlin (2015–2022) and has been a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2015.