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Embodied Philology

Translating Performance from Tashkent to Chicago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2021

Leah Feldman
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Abstract

A collaboration between actors and musicians of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and Almaty, Kazakhstan, and local electronic musician and community activist Brother El of Chicago highlights the difficulties of translating embodied performances of race and ethnicity in a transnational post–Cold War context. In a comparative reading taking up a play by the Ilkhom Theatre of Tashkent alongside its citation in the Chicago collaboration, the framework of “embodied philology” exposes the limits of post–Cold War international political alignment.

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TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 103 - 124
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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