André Bastian André Bastian i(A149700 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia : Indigenising an Austrian Nobel Prize Winner André Bastian (editor), North Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2017 12241935 2017 single work criticism

'Austrian writer and 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature winner Elfriede Jelinek has never shied away from bringing up painful issues within the discourse of modernity. In her oeuvre of over sixty plays and novels she has worked time and again on a vast variety of related topics spanning from the repression of the weak to the fascisms of everyday life in consumerist societies.

'Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia: Indigenising an Austrian Nobel Prize Winner is the first volume entirely published on Jelinek’s work in Australia and gathers a series of analyses around Princess Dramas at Red Stitch Actors Theatre—the first-ever production of one of her plays on an Australian stage, in Melbourne, 2011. It discusses questions of the Austrian writer’s complex writing strategies, potential problems of cultural transfer, the international reception of Jelinek’s work, and the contribution her work for theatre can make to a series of fundamental aspects of the global discourse of current times: feminism, sports and racism.' (Publication Summary)

1 Review : Telling Stories : Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Performance, André Bastian , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 64 2014; (p. 325-330)

— Review of Telling Stories : Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Performance Maryrose Casey , 2012 single work criticism
1 Recovering Elfriede Jelinek : But for Whom?: Creative Homesickness as a Motor for Cultural Transfer André Bastian , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , no. 59 2011; (p. ]156]-171)
'In 2004, Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voces in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power". She has since then continued to expand one of the most prolific and many-faceted oeuvres in contemporary literature by working on a vast variety of issues spanning from the repression of the weak to the fascisms of everyday life in consumerist societies.
Through her very particular writing strategies, she has thus persisted in bringing up the painful subjects of the discourse of modernity. Jelinek is one of the most influential playwrights in contemporary German-speaking theatre and she also has a considerable stage impact internationally. But only this year have Australian audiences been able to witness the first ever production of Jelinek's work in their country.
My staging of three of Jelinek's "Princess Dramas" ("Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty" and "Jackie") at Red Stitch Actors Theatre in Melbourne (June-July 2011) was part of an ongoing wide research project that aims to 'recover' Jelinek for the English-speaking stage by working on theatrical strategies in order to bridge problems of intercultural transfer in the Austrian writer's plays and thereby, to fill an assumed 'gap of translation'. André Bastian.
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