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Queer in Translation book cover

1st Edition

Queer in Translation

Edited By B.J. Epstein, Robert Gillett Copyright 2017
204 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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As the field of translation studies has developed, translators and translation scholars have become more aware of the unacknowledged ideologies inherent both in texts themselves and in the mechanisms that affect their circulation. This book both analyses the translation of queerness and applies queer thought to issues of translation. It sheds light on the manner in which heteronormative societies... Read more

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

B.J. Epstein and Robert Gillett

  1. Re-Mapping Translation: Queerying the Crossroads

    2. Shalmalee Palekar

  2. Queering Narratives and Narrating Queer: Colonial Queer Subjects in the Arab World

    3. Nour Abu Assab

  3. Revealing and Concealing the Masquerade of Translation and Gender: Double-Crossing the Text and the Body

    4. Emily Rose

  4. A Poetics of Evasion: The Queer Translations of Aleksei Apukhtin

    5. Brian James Baer

  5. Translation Failure in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room

    6. Margaret Sönser Breen

  6. Globally Queer? Taiwanese Homotextualities in Translation

    7. Andrea Bachner

  7. Queer Translation/Translating Queer during the ‘Gay Boom’ in Japan

    8. Jeffrey Angles

  8. Gaps To Watch Out For: Alison Bechdel in German

    9. Robert Gillett

  9. Eradicalisation: Eradicating the Queer in Children’s Literature

    10. B.J. Epstein

  10. The Queer Story of Your Conception: Translating Sexuality and Racism in Beasts of the Southern Wild

    11. Jacob Breslow

  11. The Translation of Desire: Queering Visibility in Nathalie… and Chloe

    12.

    Clara Bradbury-Rance

  12. Translation and the Art of Lesbian Failure in Monique Wittig’s　The Lesbian Body

    13.

    Miller Oberman

  13. Queering Translation: Rethinking Gender and Sexual Politics in the Spaces between Languages and Cultures

William J. Spurlin

Index

Biography

B.J. Epstein is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Public Engagement at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Her work focuses primarily on literary translation, queer studies, and children’s literature, and intersections between them. She is the author or editor of several books and over 160 articles, book reviews, personal essays, and short stories.

Robert Gillett is Reader in German and Comparative Cultural Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely on modern German-language literature and film and on all things queer, and is co-editor of Queer in Europe and a special issue of Sexualities on European Queer.

"[It makes] important contributions to interdisciplinary analyses between translation studies and queer theory" -- Cristiano Mazzei, University of Massachusetts, Translation Studies
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