Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address

Language: English

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2019, 2019

1501345540 / 9781501345548

Series: Book 6 of 10 - Literatures, Cultures, Translation

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Neuware - Finalist for the 2020 Prose Awards (Language and Linguistics Category)The emergence of transgender communities into the public eye over the past few decades has brought some new understanding, but also renewed outbreaks of violent backlash. In Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address Douglas Robinson seeks to understand the 'translational' or 'translingual' dialogues between cisgendered and transgendered people. Drawing on a wide range of LGBT scholars, philosophers, sociologists, sexologists, and literary voices, Robinson sets up cis-trans dialogues on such issues as 'being born in the wrong body,' binary vs. anti-binary sex/gender identities, and the nature of transition and transformation. Prominent voices in the book include Kate Bornstein, C. Jacob Hale, and Sassafras Lowrey.The theory of translation mobilized in the book is not the traditional equivalence-based one, but Callon and Latour's sociology of translation as 'speaking for someone else,' which grounds the study of translation in social pressures to conform to group norms. In addition, however, Robinson translates a series of passages from Finnish trans novels into English, and explores the 'translingual address' that emerges when those English translations are put into dialogue with cis and trans scholars.…

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Title
Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address
Author
Douglas Robinson
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jan 2019
Publication year
2019
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Buch
Language
English
ISBN 10
1501345540
ISBN 13
9781501345548
Item weight
478 grams
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216x140x18 mm
Series
Book 6 of 10: Literatures, Cultures, Translation

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