The Black Body in Translation: Polish Productions of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun in the 1960s

摘要: This essay explores the cultural implications of blackface in four Polish-language productions A Raisin Sun context Poland's cold war politics 1960s. Drawing on Derrida's theory translation as performance and Butler's notions constructed corporeality, examines an element interracial black body, taking place concurrently with textual from English into Polish. The traces tensions between these two kinds to major sources: state's attempts redefine Otherness along class rather than racial lines, theatres' desires safeguard historically precarious definition Polish identity. Despite multiple misrepresentations blackness that produced, argues cross-casting strategies utilized nevertheless managed challenge codes difference by emphasizing materiality actors' bodies.