Queerness of Translation - Transference, Interpretation, Theory

This groundbreaking work explores how scholarship from queer theory can help to bridge the gap between translation studies and other disciplines, including cultural studies, comparative literature, anthropology, philosophy, and history.

List of contents

Introduction 1. What's So Queer About Translation Studies? James S. Holmes and the Ethical Imperatives of the First Person 2. Translation and Transference: Eros, Linguistics, Cinematic Transmissions 3. Institutional Critique, Canonical Interpretation, Queer Planetarity 4. Is Paris Still Burning? Decolonial Queerness, Subaltern Performances 5. Posthuman Feminisms and Other Queer Futures Conclusion

About the author

Christopher Larkosh is Associate Professor of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His previous publications include Re-Engendering Translation: Transcultural Practice, Gender/Sexuality and the Politics of Alterity (2011).

Summary

This groundbreaking work explores how scholarship from queer theory can help to bridge the gap between translation studies and other disciplines, including cultural studies, comparative literature, anthropology, philosophy, and history.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Larkosh, Christopher (University of Massachusetts Larkosh, Larkosh Christopher
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9781138631373
• ISBN: 978-1-138-63137-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies; Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Translation & interpretation, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary theory, Translation and interpretation