A Translation and Analysis of Spring's Bride by Mohammed Dib: Creating a Space for Indigenous North African Drama

The Ubu Repertory Theatre Script Collection, which is located in the archives at New York University, contains numerous manuscripts in the French language from dramatists all over the world. One of those manuscripts, <em>La fiancée du printemps </em>by Mohammed Dib, is my own translation of the text from French into English, now titled <em>Spring’s Bride</em>. The text operates as a plea for postcolonial solidarity in the face of an increasingly fragmented community. The characters of the play must confront their deeply held beliefs and their possible destructive power. The translation of this text presents the postcolonial perspective to an Anglophone audience. Using Patrice Pavis’ conceptions of mise en scène as a process that mediates between a source culture and a target culture, the translation also operates as a continuation of Ubu Repertory Theatre’s intercultural mise en scène between Francophone-African dramatists and the American culture in which those plays were staged.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Theatre Studies

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Talbot, Jordan

Contributors dc:contributor

• John A. Ball
• Michael Johnson
• George Bellah

• translation
• Africana Studies
• Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory
• Other French and Francophone Language and Literature

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/511

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1511