Government Censorship in the Contemporary Spanish Theatre

O'Connor, Patricia W.

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“…The emergence of overtly political translations in Spain, including of Sartre's theatre, coincided with this apertura period, which also saw the continued growth of independent and experimental theatre groups and increased opposition to the regime. The response to foreign 2 For further information about theatre censorship in Spain, see O'Connor (1966); Abellán (1980) ;Muñoz Cáliz (2005); O'Leary (2005). For information on the censorship of foreign dramatists in particular, see Merino-Álvarez's TRACE project (www.ehu.es/trace) and Vandaele (2010).…”

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Fromlittérature engagéeto engaged translation: staging Jean-Paul Sartre's theatre as a challenge to Franco's rule in Spain

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2019

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The practice of creating translations that 'rouse, inspire, witness, mobilize, and incite to rebellion' is described by Maria Tymoczko, following Jean-Paul Sartre's littérature engagée, as 'engaged translation ' (2007, 213). In Spain, under the Franco dictatorship , the theatre became a site of opposition to his rule and the creation of 'engaged' translations of foreign plays was one of the ways in which alternative social and political realities were transmitted to local audiences. This was particularly evident during the so-called apertura period (1962)(1963)(1964)(1965)(1966)(1967)(1968)(1969), when Spain's political leaders embraced more liberal and outwardfacing cultural policies as part of their efforts to ensure the regime's continuity. Drawing on archival evidence from the state censorship files held at Archivo General de la Administración (AGA) in Alcalá de Henares, this article considers how 'engaged' translations of Sartre's theatre were employed as instruments of cultural opposition to the Spanish dictatorship. It also argues that an analysis of the files both helps us to understand the role of censorship in shaping an official version of the past, and shines a light on the memory of a little-studied aspect of cultural activism in the Spanish theatre.

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Fromlittérature engagéeto engaged translation: staging Jean-Paul Sartre's theatre as a challenge to Franco's rule in Spain

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“…Groundbreaking investigations of theatre censorship in Spain during the Franco dictatorship were carried out by Patricia O'Connor as early as the 1960s, encountering predictable resistance from the regime itself (O'Connor, 1966;1973), and by Manuel L. Abellán in the late 1970s and 1980s (Abellán, 1978;1989). Hans-Jörg Neuschäfer was able to benefit from more or less unrestricted access to the files in the Archivo General de la Administración (AGA) in Alcalá de Henares for his important study of literary, film, and theatre censorship during the Republic and the dictatorship (Neuschäfer, 1994).…”

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