1st Edition
Queering Modernist Translation The Poetics of Race, Gender, and Queerness
By Christian Bancroft
Copyright 2020
192 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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Queering Modernist Translation explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the concept of queering translation. As Bancroft argues, queering translation is an intersectional lens for gleaning identity and socio-cultural issues in translation, such as gender, sexuality, diaspora, and race. Using theories espoused by Jack Halberstam, José Esteban Muñoz, Elizabeth Grosz,... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: "In the meantime, my songs will travel": Ezra Pound
Chapter 2: "Looking glass of earth!": Langston Hughes
Chapter 3: "This beauty is too much": H.D
Coda
Biography
Christian Bancroft is the recipient of a Michener Fellowship. A semifinalist for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, he is the co-editor of Adelaide Crapsey: The Life and Work of an American Master (2018). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, jubilat, Gulf Coast, and Asymptote, among others.
