Book of Screams & Transcreation
I’ve just heard this beautiful and stimulating poem and I thought I would share it with you all. Book of Screams is performed first by the poet Afeif Ismail Abdelrazig in Arabic, then in English by Vivienne Glance.
Book of Screams – Afeif Ismail Abdelrazig & Vivienne Glance
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Due to a couple of projects I’ve been working on recently, I’ve been thinking about the creative processes of adaptation and translation. Abdelrazig and Glance work together in a process called “transcreation” and the presenter of the podcast speaks a little about that after the poem itself. The “transcreation” is not literal translation but a recreation of the poem in English which is developed through a collaboration of both poets.
If you’re interested in find out a little more about transcreation, a useful start-point may be Matthew Stibbe’s discussion of its use in marketing.
I’m on the look out for all kinds of literary/performance adaptations, translations, transcreations and/or tradaptations at the moment. If you’ve enjoyed or found one particularly interesting, I’d love to hear about it! You can leave me a comment below or use any of the links in the contact panel (left).
7 March 2010 at 11:29 am
It’s really kind of you to link to the guest post on my blog. Just a small thing – it’s Matthew not Michael. (Michael is my brother!) I’m looking forward to Reading more of your blog.
7 March 2010 at 11:37 am
@Matthew I’m so sorry about that! I’ve corrected the post now.
14 April 2010 at 2:36 pm
Well hello Jon. Just googling around as a starting point for my essay on Lepage and tradaptation and who should I see in the first page of results?!
Very interesting reading. Thank you.