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3:12 PM 02/08/2013

Myth of the Foreign Woman: Translating Medea

A lecture with Arie Thompson
Monday, March 28, 2011
7 p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
literature
gender
feminism
women
translation
migration

Award-winning singer, songwriter, and performer Arie Thompson discusses why and how she translated Max Rouquette’s play Médée, his 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 a refugee. This event is sponsored by the Barnard Center for Translation Studies thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation. A reception will follow.

Photo courtesy of Arie Thompson

Information
(212) 851-5979
translation@barnard.edu

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