Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address

Robinson, Douglas

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“…As you will have noticed, translation appears briefly and passingly in those first four sections-in Schleiermacher and Hartama-Heinonen-but what I have mainly tried to do there is to set up a history linking hermeneutics to cognitive science, 12 Icotic theory began to emerge as an extension of somatic theory in early drafts (from about 2009) of what eventually became Robinson (2016a); see also (Robinson 2013b(Robinson , 2016b(Robinson , 2016c(Robinson , 2017(Robinson , and 2019.…”

Section: Yearbook Of Translational Hermeneutics 2/2022mentioning

confidence: 99%

Editor’s Introduction: The Emergence of 4EA Cognitive Science out of Hermeneutics

Robinson¹

2023

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work for German Romanticism. 4 Certainly if we agree with Roy (1997) and Crouter (2006) that Schleiermacherian hermeneutics is fundamentally feeling-based, the founding moment for that theory came in 1774, when Herder suggested that understanding requires "feeling yourself into everything": Ganze Natur der Seele, die durch Alles herrscht, die alle übrige Neigungen und Seelenkräfte nach sich modelt, noch auch die gleichgültigsten Handlungen färbet-um diese mitzufühlen, antworte nicht aus dem Worte, sondern gehe in das Zeitalter, in die Himmelsgegend, die ganze Geschichte, fühle dich in alles hinein-nun allein bist du auf dem Wege, das Wort zu verstehen […].

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Section: Yearbook Of Translational Hermeneutics 2/2022mentioning

confidence: 99%

Editor’s Introduction: The Emergence of 4EA Cognitive Science out of Hermeneutics

Robinson¹

2023

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“…Psychologists located at the periphery of the Western or Global Northern model of transness risk marginalizing the trans people that address their services in two fundamental ways: first, by excluding intersectional and locatable viewings of gender identity, thus using the inclusiveness of the umbrella term “trans” in a neutralizing way. Terminology and representation are intrinsically bound, and the imposition of English as a lingua franca for approximating gender identity might erase practices and representations not linearly translatable to English (Robinson, 2021). Second, gender diversity, itself charged with non‐Western connotations of exoticism and remoteness, has long been discredited by psychological science as deviant and channeled toward conformity (Cameron & Stinson, 2019).…”

Section: Framing Psychologists' Representations Of Transness At the P...mentioning

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Psychologists' representations of gender identity between Spain and Greece: A qualitative cross‐cultural study

Argyriou

2023

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Trans people's relationship with mental health providers carries historical tensions. Counseling services have been tied to standardized procedures or diagnostic certification of dysphoria and gender evaluations, while other psychosocial demands have been largely disregarded. Moreover, protocols and approaches focus disproportionately on Anglo‐American frameworks, in terms of epistemic resources established to describe gender‐diverse experiences. These issues affect both representations of gender identity and attitudes toward counseling. The present study aimed to address psychologists' accounts cross‐culturally, by using qualitative data acquired through interviews with active practitioners from Spain and Greece. Eighteen qualitative semi‐structured interviews were conducted in both countries in order to delve into the narratives related to trans mental health care provision. Thematic analysis using Atlas.ti was used to systematize the data. The accounts centered on gender identity representations and attributions, attitudes toward counseling, relationship with diagnoses, psychological approaches, and competent training. Findings point to the need for all‐encompassing, obligatory training of psychologists on trans mental health, followed by situated considerations of the contextual factors that may contribute to experiencing gender diversity differently. More cross‐cultural qualitative accounts are thus encouraged, to enrich and update the upcoming trans literature on the matter.

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“…Although there have been some studies of queer translation in the context of Sinophone language and culture, a survey of the field of queer translation studies reveals that a considerable gap remains between queer translation and Chinese-English translation, especially around the translation of non-normative sexualities, genders, bodies, and desires. Notable exceptions include Andrea Bachner's discussion of how the concept of queer has been translated, circulated, and received in Sinophone contexts(77) , Leo Tak-Hung Chan's (96) case study of parodic Japanese manga versions of the Chinese classic The Journey to the West (西遊記, xiyouji), Baer's passing but suggestive mention of the Chinese samesex love tale "The Passion of the Cut Sleeve" (2020), Robinson's (2020) reading of the Chinese classic 道德經 (daode jing) based on the "rhizomatics" of gender (161), James St. André's analysis of the authenticity of British sinologist John Francis Davis's The Sorrows of Han (漢宮愁, han gong kou) in the context of cross-identity performance, and Hongwei Bao's article on how western queer theory was introduced and framed in mainland China at the beginning of the twenty-first century. , vol.…”

Section: Queer Translation In the Chinese Contextmentioning

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“…This suggests that dismantling sexual and gender binaries structured around fixed, stable identities can open new possibilities for cross-identification outside binary oppositions, including (as Larkosh observed) man/woman, male/female, hiv+/hiv-, straight/gay, and, I would add, those having to do with sexual roles such as master/slave, top/bottom, puppy/handler, dominant/submissive, fister/fistee that travel across languages, cultures, and communities. Taking this further, if binary gender can be a territory within which penis-centred masculine heterosexuality is idealized as territoriality and vagina-defined feminine heterosexuality conceived as sub-territoriality, as argued by Robinson (2020), fucking binaries pushes gender and sexual roles and identities beyond exclusive heterosexual/ homosexual categories and analogies between a masculinist privileging autonomy of the master (original) text and independence of the feminized servant (target) text. Only when translation is divorced from both sexual and linguistic boundaries will it be able to create a practice that is "amorphous, ambiguous, different and quite possibly queer" (Spurlin 2017, 176).…”

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Queering the English Translation of Male Same-Sex Desire in 1990s Chinese-Language Literature

2022

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In recent years, we have come to see translation studies as intimately intertwined with queer theory. The interpenetration of the two fields has stimulated significant shifts in how we understand both the nature and the uses of queering social identities and categories. It has also illuminated the complex and nuanced ways in which desire, sexuality, and gender are inscribed in languages and translation. If the word queer is significant both for its “celebration of difference” and in its “reappropriation of the language used by the heterosexist culture,” then the meanings that queer acquires in its translation both to and from non-English linguistic and cultural codes are particularly useful for the study of how queer goes beyond universal notions, fixed identities, or default categories. Translation is “comparably indeterminate and similarly imbricated with issues of gender and sexuality, playfulness, and power.” In this article, I discuss the relationship between queer and translation, and the implications of this relationship for the queering of translation, through textual analysis of the translated, transferred, transmitted representations male same-sex desire and practices, particularly fetishism and sadomasochism, in Taiwanese queer literature from the 1990s. That decade saw an unprecedented flowering of queer literature in Taiwan and, as such, provides a fascinating case study in the historical and social development of the global circulation of queer theory across languages and cultures. I centre my discussion around two seminal texts, Ta-wei Chi’s short story anthology 膜 (The Membranes, 1996) and Chu T’ien-Wen’s novel 荒人手記 (Notes of A Desolate Man, 1994), and draw on William J. Spurlin’s (2017) rethinking of gender and sexual politics in the spaces between languages and cultures, Brian James Baer’s (2020) application of queer theory to translation studies and Douglas Robinson’s (2020) formulation of “equivalencefuck.” I argue that their insights enable an approach to the queering of translation that incorporates queer theory into the theory and practice of translation by understanding translation as essentially a queer praxis that simultaneously fucks with linguistic and cultural binaries on the one hand and with sexual and gender binaries on the other. While fucking binaries plays a vital role in critiquing what is fetishized as source-target equivalence in translation, considering translation as a queer praxis demonstrates that the conjunction of queer and translation offers “new sites of heterogeneity and difference.” Thus, I argue that bringing queer theory to translation and translation studies disrupts some of the foundational assumptions about translation. In turn, this offers new opportunities to queer how we think about sexual and gender difference, cultural dissimilitude, and linguistic diversity in both translation practice and translation studies.

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Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address

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Editor’s Introduction: The Emergence of 4EA Cognitive Science out of Hermeneutics

Editor’s Introduction: The Emergence of 4EA Cognitive Science out of Hermeneutics

Psychologists' representations of gender identity between Spain and Greece: A qualitative cross‐cultural study

Queering the English Translation of Male Same-Sex Desire in 1990s Chinese-Language Literature

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