Queering Translation, Translating the Queer

Abstract

This groundbreaking work is one of the first book-length publications to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives through fourteen contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field to demonstrate the interconnectedness between translation and queer aspects of sex, gender, and identity. The book begins with the editors' introduction on the state of the field, providing an overview of both current and developing lines of research, and builds on this foundation to look at this research more closely, grouped around three different sections: Queer Theorizing of Translation, Case Studies of Queer Translations and Translators, and Queer Activism and Translation. This interdisciplinary approach seeks not only to shed light on this promising field of research but also to promote cross-fertilization between these disciplines toward further exploring the intersections between queer studies and translation studies, making this volume key reading for students and scholars interested in translation studies, queer studies, politics, activism, and gender and sexuality studies.

Applying feminist translation strategies in audio description

“…The audio describer detaches from neutrality and creates a script which enhances the information carried by the audiovisual product. The contents of the source text, the documentary, are overtly feminist and queer, and they should a be accompanied by a deliberate queer and feminist AD, which adapts feminist translation strategies that are able to render visible the historically hidden or marginalised as postulated by feminist and queer translation theorist and professionals (Castro and Ergun 2017;Epstein and Gillett 2017;Baer and Kaindl 2018;Baer 2020;Rose 2021;Martínez Pleguezuelos 2018;Iturregui-Gallardo in press).…”

“…In the same vein, Epstein and Gillett (2017) curated a collection of studies that touch upon the representation and handling of the queer in translation as tool to fight back the historical and imposed heterosexuality (Epstein and Gillett 2017). Epstein and Gillett's volume was followed by Baer and Kaindl (2018) work, in which a variety of case studies revolving around queer identities and narratives are presented, and by Baer (2020), with a more theoretical approach to the matter, and most recently by Rose (2021), who centres her attention on trans and intersex texts and authors in translation. All this literature shows the vast potential for reflexion of the discipline.…”

“…society, as put in Butlerian words, research on the topic is virtually nonexistent. In the field of translation(Epstein and Gillett 2017;Baer and Kaindl 2018; Baer 2020;Rose 2021) and audiovisual translation specifically (Martínez-Pleguezuelos 2018; Villanueva 2021; Villanueva and Chaume 2021) work is being developed to address such matters. However, less studies have been published within the neighbouring fields of accessibility and media accessibility (Marcelino Villela and Iturregui-Gallardo 2020; Oppegaard and Miguel 2022; Iturregui-Gallardo in press), which is particularly relevant due to the traditionally ableist representation and understanding of disability.…”

Sukupuolen käännöksiä

“…Sukupuolivähemmistöjä koskevat tekstit ovat olleet tutkimuksen kohteina käännöstieteessä vasta viime vuosina (esim. Baer & Kaindl 2017;Rose 2021;Baldo, Evans & Guo 2021). Oma tutkimukseni täydentää tätä tutkimussuuntaa erityisesti suomentamisen kontekstissa.…”

EMILY, Rose. Translating Trans Identity. (Re)writing Undecidable Texts and Bodies. Nueva York y Londres, Routledge, 2021, 215 pp., ISBN 978-0-367-36996-5

“…(Re)Writing Undecidable Texts and Bodies de Emily Rose es un claro ejemplo del desarrollo de los Estudios de Traducción después de que los enfoques prescriptivistas dejaran paso a ideas más posmodernas centrándose así en la cultura, la identidad y la agencia dentro de la práctica de la traducción. Este volumen, que es el resultado de su tesis doctoral, sigue la línea de importantes trabajos dentro de la traducción queer como son las publicaciones de Epstein y Gillett (2017), Baer y Kaindl (2018) y Baer (2020), entre otras. La inestabilidad del término queer y de las teorías que de este se derivan, criticadas por su fuerte naturaleza individual y su intangible aplicación, se ponen en funcionamiento aquí para el análisis de numerosos textos contribuyendo así con valiosas reflexiones que indudablemente ayudan a configurar y solidificar lo que se ha descrito ya como el queer turn en los Estudios de Traducción (Santaemilia, 2018).…”