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Intercultural Movements - American Gay in French Translation (Hardcover)
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Intercultural Movements - American Gay in French Translation (Hardcover)
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How was American gay liberation received in France between the
events of Stonewall and the AIDS crisis? What part did translations
of American 'gay fiction' play in this reception? How might the
various intercultural movements that characterize the French
response to 'American gay' be conceptualized as translational?
Intercultural Movements attempts to answer these questions by
situating detailed analyses of key textual and paratextual
dimensions of selected translations within an understanding of the
French fascination in the 1970s with the model of gay emancipation
in the United States. Through an examination of the translations of
Andrew Holleran's Dancer from the Dance, John Rechy's Rushes and
Larry Kramer's Faggots, the book explores the dynamic of
attraction, assimilation, transformation and rejection that
characterizes French attitudes at the time. In particular,
representations of the figure of the 'queen' - of the effeminate
homosexual - are identified as particularly sensitive textual zones
for understanding French views on homosexual emancipation in the
light of American developments. Key figures involved in these
debates include translators, academics and activists such as
Alain-Emanuel Dreuilhe, Michel Foucault, Guy Hocquenghem, Brice
Matthieussent, Philippe Mikriammos and Georges-Michel Sarotte -
many of whom lived out the translational pressures of the time
through various types of physical (as well as textual) displacement
into the foreign space. More broadly, the book envisages using
translation and translatedness as the paradigm case for all sorts
of intercultural traffic while also intimating the possibility of
an intercultural studies predicated upon a vision of cultural
spaces as necessarily traversed and constituted by
(mis)recognitions of cultural others.
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