Of interest to scholars in translation studies, gender and
sexuality, and comparative literary and cultural studies, this
volume re-examines the possibilities for multiple intersections
between translation studies and research on sexuality and gender,
and in so doing addresses the persistent theoretical gaps in much
work on translation and gender to date. The current climate still
seems to promote the continuation of identity politics by
encouraging conversations that depart from an all too often limited
range of essentializing gendered subject positions. A more
inclusive approach to the theoretical intersection between
translation and gender as proposed by this volume aims to open up
the discussion to a wider range of linguistically and culturally
informed representations of sexuality and gender, one in which
neither of these two theoretical terms, much less the subjects
associated with them, is considered secondary or subordinate to the
other. This discussion extends not only to questions of linguistic
difference as mediated through the act of translation, but also to
the challenges of intersubjectivity as negotiated through culture,
race or ethnicity.
The volume also makes a priority of engaging a wide range of
cultural and linguistic spaces: Latin America under military
dictatorship, numerous points of the African cultural diaspora, and
voices from South, Southeast and East Asia. Such perspectives are
not included merely as supplemental, minority additions to an
otherwise metropolitan-centred volume, but instead are integral to
the volume s focus, underscoring its goal of re-engendering
translation studies through a politics of alterity that encourages
the continued articulation and translation of difference, be it
sexual or gendered, cultural or linguistic.
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