Translating the armed struggle: Alfonso Sastre and Sean O'Casey in Spain

Catherine O'Leary

doi:10.1080/14781700.2017.1339207

Translating the armed struggle: Alfonso Sastre and Sean O'Casey in Spain

Catherine O'Leary

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This article considers why the controversial Spanish playwright Alfonso Sastre, working within the constraints imposed by the Franco dictatorship (1939–75), chose to create versions of two plays by Sean O’Casey, an Irish dramatist who made his name in Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in the 1920s. It argues that Sastre’s adaptations of Red Roses for Me and The Shadow of a Gunman were his way of evading censorship and calling for political change in Spain, and thus constitute clear examples of translation as political activism and cultural resistance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	47-65
Number of pages	19
Journal	Translation Studies
Volume	11
Issue number	1
Early online date	3 Aug 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2017.1339207
Publication status	Published - 2018

Keywords

Activist translation
Theatre censorship
Franco dictatorship
Alfonso Sastre
Sean O'Casey

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Catherine Margaret O'Leary
- cmo4st-andrews.acuk
- Spanish - Professor
- School of Modern Languages
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