Sino-Queer Translation
Mediating Sexualities across Languages, Cultures, and Borders
Sino-Queer Translation
Mediating Sexualities across Languages, Cultures, and Borders
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Explores the role of queer translation in shaping Chinese-language queer literature, cultures, and histories.
Sino-Queer Translation encompasses queer literature from the Sinosphere originally written in Chinese and other Sinitic languages as well as queer works translated into these languages. It involves a complex network of literary, cinematic, theatrical, and media texts moving between Sinitic languages and other languages including Danish, German, Japanese, English, and Italian. Through this study, the contributors highlight the ways in which queer translation and literature in the Sinosphere encounter, intersect, and interplay textually, culturally, and temporally.
The chapters explore themes such as the fluidity of gender and language, translation beyond traditional source–target binaries, and creative or resistant strategies of translation. Collectively, these chapters explore the theoretical and practical implications of queer/ing translation, including the dismantling of binary models of exchange structured around fixed origins and endpoints, and the contextualisation of the transnational circulation of queerness in relation to gender, sexuality, and desire. They also extend beyond linguistic translation to consider translation across media and cultural forms.
The book assesses queer translation theories and practices as critical interventions in the Sinospheric contexts, contributing to the queering of translation studies.
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface. Whither Queer Translation Studies?
Brian James Baer (Kent State University, USA)
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Sino-Queer Translation as Theory, Method, and Practice
Yahia Zhengtang Ma (Independent Scholar of Queer Translation Studies, Australia) and Hongwei Bao (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Part I. Translating Queer Theoretical and Literary Texts
1. 'A Cool Kid': Queer Theory Travels to China
Hongwei Bao (University of St. Andrews, UK)
2. Soft Translation: Fluidities of Gender, Language, and Sea in Chi Ta-wei's The Membranes
Astrid Møller-Olsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
3. Lazi Across Languages: Queering Difference in the German Translations of Qiu Miaojin's Novels
Rebecca Ehrenwirth (University of Applied Sciences & SDI Muinch, Germany)
4. Pathologising, Censoring, and Queering: Chinese Translations of Michael Cunningham's Three Novels
Yahia Zhengtang Ma (Independent Scholar of Queer Translation Studies, Australia)
5. Translating and Circulating Queer Taiwanese Sci-Fi in Italy: The Case of Chi Ta-wei
Alessandra Pezza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Part II. Performing Queerness in Transmedial Contexts
6. Translating Erotic Narratives and Queer Identity: A Case Study of Beijing Comrades
Pengcheng Tang (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
7. 'Serving Subversive Realness': Linyu, Activist Fansubbing, and Queer Resistance in the Chinese Subtitling of RuPaul's Drag Race
Hu Sang (Hunan Normal University, China)
8. The Crystal Boys' Leap from Page to Screen to Stage: Pai Hsien-yung's Half-Century of (Self-)Transmediations
Ursula Deser Friedman (Harvard University, USA)
9. The Trans Image of Mulan Represented in Intermedial Translation: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Disney's Mulan Adapted from the Chinese Classic The Ballad of Mulan
Zhongli Yu (University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China) and Qiyao Zhang (University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China)
10. Performing Queerness in Boy's Love Manhua/Manga through Manipulating Taiwanese Mandarin and Japanese Speech Styles
Vance Schaefer (University of Mississippi, USA) and Tamara Warhol (University of Mississippi, USA)
11. Translating Queer Masculinity: Fansubbing Queer Eye for Chinese Audiences
Rui Yang (University of Glasgow, UK)
Afterword
Yahia Zhengtang Ma (Independent Scholar of Queer Translation Studies, Australia) and Hongwei Bao (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Product details
| Published | 08 Jul 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9798216460329 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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