The Challenges of Translation, The Deception of Reception: The Case of<i>Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman</i>by Sabina Berman
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Few plays from Latin America are translated and produced by professional theater companies in the English-speaking world. The reason for this, Diana Taylor has argued, is Latin American theater's "deceptive familiarity." If a play is too exotic, it is deemed illegible; if it is made legible or feels familiar, it is dismissed as not being foreign or exotic enough. Occasionally, a play will escape this paradox and attract sufficient attention to warrant a series of productions. This has been the case of Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, Sabina Berman's comic deconstruction of Mexican machismo as personified by the revolutionary folk hero and national icon Pancho Villa which, since its 1993 Mexican premiere, has enjoyed multiple productions abroad. Through a detailed analysis of performance reviews from U.S. and Canadian productions, the author considers the particular attraction of Berman's play and highlights difficulties in translating and producing this play outside Mexico.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.020 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".