Brian James Baer - Queering Translation, Translating the Queer: Theory, Practice, Activism

This groundbreaking work is one of the first book-length publications to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives through fourteen contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field to demonstrate the interconnectedness between translation and queer aspects of sex, gender, and identity. The book begins with the editors introduction on the state of the field, providing an overview of both current and developing lines of research, and builds on this foundation to look at this research more closely, grouped around three different sections: Queer Theorizing of Translation, Case Studies of Queer Translations and Translators, and Queer Activism and Translation. This interdisciplinary approach seeks not only to shed light on this promising field of research but also to promote cross-fertilization between these disciplines toward further exploring the intersections between queer studies and translation studies, making this volume key reading for students and scholars interested in translation studies, queer studies, politics, activism, and gender and sexuality studies.

Brian James Baer is Professor of Russian Translation in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies at Kent State University.

Klaus Kaindl is Associate Professor at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna.

19Critical Translation Studies

Douglas Robinson

20Feminist Translation Studies

Local and Transnational Perspectives

Edited by Olga Castro and Emek Ergun

21Studying Scientific Metaphor in Translation

An Inquiry into Cross-Lingual Translation Practices

Mark Shuttleworth

22Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages

Edited by Kathryn Batchelor and Sue-Ann Harding

23Translation and Public Policy

Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Case Studies

Edited by Gabriel Gonzlez Nez and Reine Meylaerts

24Translationality

Essays in the Translational-Medical Humanities

Douglas Robinson

25The Changing Role of the Interpreter

Contextualising Norms, Ethics and Quality Standards

Edited by Marta Biagini, Michael S. Boyd and Claudia Monacelli

26Translation in Russian Contexts

Culture, Politics, Identity

Edited by Brian James Baer and Susanna Witt

27Untranslatability Goes Global

Edited by Suzanne Jill Levine and Katie Lateef-Jan

28Queering Translation, Translating the Queer

Theory, Practice, Activism

Edited by Brian James Baer and Klaus Kaindl

Edited by Brian James Baer and Klaus Kaindl

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To Keith Harvey,
whose groundbreaking scholarship made this volume possible