Transgender, translation, translingual address /
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| Author / Creator: | Robinson, Douglas, 1954- author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019. ©2019 |
| Description: | xxxiii, 248 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literatures, cultures, translation Literatures, cultures, translation. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11786253 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Permissions
- Preface
- Translinguality
- Transgender and Translation
- Fucking Binaries
- A Confession
- Structure of the Book
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Why Should Cisnormative Translation Scholars Care About Translation and Transgender?
- First answer: It's being done
- Second answer: Paying attention
- Third answer: Knowledge as emancipation
- Example: Translating Maori takatdpui
- Fourth answer: Epistemicide
- Gender epistemicide more broadly
- Gender epistemicide more broadly still: EL vs. CL
- Qualitative EL vs. stealth CL
- Common sense
- Fifth answer: Trans-poetics and belonging
- 2. The Semiosphere Must Be Fed by at Least Two Languages
- OL/UL Introduction
- The first language (OL): A feminist analytical take on transgender
- The second language (UL): A Finnish LGBT novel
- OL/UL Take One: Radical polarization (positivism vs. phenomenology)
- Juri Lotman on the semiosphere and translation
- OL/UL Take Two: Cautious mutual approach (paranoid reading)
- Excursus on narrative point of view: Introducing the "transdiegetic" narrator
- End of excursus: Back to Take Two
- OL/UL Take Three: Rapprochement (reparative reading)
- Conclusion: Icosis
- 3. New Worlds (the Emergence of the Unexpected): The Ecology of Gender as a Dissipative System
- Introduction: The normative entelechy of binary gender
- Symmetry-breaking events and the emergence of the new in dissipative systems
- Bakhtinian heteroglossia
- Emergent mutations
- New worlds again
- First Conclusion: Cis-trans(lating) PBL and ABL
- Second Conclusion: Entelechany
- 4. Becoming-Trans: The Rhizomatics of Gender
- Introduction: Deleuzean rhizomatics
- "Becoming-woman" becoming "becoming-trans"
- Becoming-trans: Becoming-Boi, Becoming-Grrrl (Sassafras Lowrey Lost Boi)
- Becoming-trans 2 : Becoming-Animal (Jenni Kangasvuo, Sudenveri)
- Becoming-trans 3 : Becoming-Mineral (Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, "Cycle undone")
- Laozi on surrendering control
- Becoming-trans 4 : The mystical turn
- Conclusion: The dark night of the soul
- Concludingly: (Peri)Performative Becoming-Queer
- Becoming-queer 1 (becoming-lesbian): Early Judith Butler
- Becoming-queer 2 (becoming-whatever): More recent Judith Butler
- Felman's Austin on the performative fun of failing
- Chen's Austin on marrying a monkey
- Sedgwick on the periperformative
- Bourdieu's secret code
- Becoming-queer 3 (becoming-nonbinary, becoming-variably-gendered): Kate Bornstein
- Finally
- Notes
- References
- Index
