Queer in Translation

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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Notes on Contributors

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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

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