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Author:   B.J. Epstein ,  Robert Gillett
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.380kg
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9781138336711

ISBN 10:   1138336718
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   30 July 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction B.J. Epstein and Robert Gillett Re-Mapping Translation: Queerying the Crossroads Shalmalee Palekar Queering Narratives and Narrating Queer: Colonial Queer Subjects in the Arab World Nour Abu Assab Revealing and Concealing the Masquerade of Translation and Gender: Double-Crossing the Text and the Body Emily Rose A Poetics of Evasion: The Queer Translations of Aleksei Apukhtin Brian James Baer Translation Failure in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room Margaret Sönser Breen Globally Queer? Taiwanese Homotextualities in Translation Andrea Bachner Queer Translation/Translating Queer during the ‘Gay Boom’ in Japan Jeffrey Angles Gaps To Watch Out For: Alison Bechdel in German Robert Gillett Eradicalisation: Eradicating the Queer in Children’s Literature B.J. Epstein The Queer Story of Your Conception: Translating Sexuality and Racism in Beasts of the Southern Wild Jacob Breslow The Translation of Desire: Queering Visibility in Nathalie… and Chloe Clara Bradbury-Rance Translation and the Art of Lesbian Failure in Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body Miller Oberman Queering Translation: Rethinking Gender and Sexual Politics in the Spaces between Languages and Cultures William J. Spurlin Index

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B.J. Epstein is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Public Engagement at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Her work focuses primarily on literary translation, queer studies, and children’s literature, and intersections between them. She is the author or editor of several books and over 160 articles, book reviews, personal essays, and short stories. Robert Gillett is Reader in German and Comparative Cultural Studies at Queen Mary University of London. He has published widely on modern German-language literature and film and on all things queer, and is co-editor of Queer in Europe and a special issue of Sexualities on European Queer.

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