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"Myth of the Foreign Woman: Translating Medea"

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Mar 28, 2011 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm EDT
Location: Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College
Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2019

Singer-songwriter Arie Thompson discusses why and how she translated Max Rouquette’s Médée, an Occitan/French/Bambara version of the Medea story, for an American audience. Rouquette borrows the story of Medea—a woman scorned by the man she loved once she has uprooted herself to live in a foreign land—from Euripides, but refashions her plight to foreground her status as refugee.

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"Myth of the Foreign Woman: Translating Medea"

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