Existences

Monica Ruocco

Existences: Voices of Arab dramaturgies between diaspora and revolution

Authors

Monica Ruocco

University of Naples "L'Orientale"

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0528-6429

Keywords:

theater, Arabic, Western languages, translation, laboratory

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Laboratorio di traduzione

Pages: 288

Language: English

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-27452

Abstract: “The Arab theater born in recent times is perhaps the most contemporary amongst all types of theater. The most deeply contemporary. Contemporaneity does not mean reporting a news story. Contemporaneity is absolute only when its strength concerns the always, the always that draws on what happened in the past centuries, pushing itself into the future, without limits” (from the preface by R. Cappuccio).

This anthological volume, the first in Western languages to collect texts of the most recent Arabic drama, is the result of the cooperation between the Department Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo (DAAM) of the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and the Fondazione Campania dei Festival that organizes the Campania Teatro Festival (CTF). This volume is part of the activities of the Laboratorio di Traduzione (DAAM - Department of Excellence 2018-2022 program).

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Author Biography

Monica Ruocco, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

Monica Ruocco is full professor of Arabic Language and Literature in the Department Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo (DAAM) at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. She is President of the European Association for the Modern Arabic Literature (EURAMAL) and of the Italian Association of Middle East Studies (SeSaMO). Her research interests focus on Arabic contemporary literature and drama, and her essays are published in Italy and abroad. For her activity as a translator she was awarded the MIBACT “National Prize for Translation” in 2015, and in 2017 she was shortlisted for the Biennial Translation Prize of the Bottari Lattes Foundation.