Re-queering the Queer in Translation
from Global to Local Inscriptions
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17851/2238-3824.29.2.126-137Keywords:
queer, subjectivities, translatorAbstract
This article explores the translation of queer texts by analyzing the translator’s perspective and deciphering questions of identity and interpretation. We argue that it is important to expose future translators about social theories that promote equality, in order to understand why the translator’s profile is relevant in relation to texts that contain implications on social activism, as well as to be able to understand the material, the cause, the theory and the subjects under analysis. We explore the gaze in relation to understanding queer texts, global difficulties rooted in postcolonial theory, as well as the challenges in translating queer texts in the twenty-first century. Although activism by queer communities continue, for not all of us have the same rights or treatment in our daily lives, one need stands out among researchers, and that is, now that queer theory has successfully circulated global queer concepts, we leave in our translations the ways to express queer identities with all their differences and local specificities, so that we use translation as a way to re-queer global concepts, bringing local inscriptions onto queer discourses.
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