Subjectivity and Seropositivity: Retranslating Guillaume Dustan" [Subjectivité et séropositivité: Retraduire Guillaume Dustan]
Queer subjectivity is often thought of as fluid, nonlinear. This viewpoint aligns with scholarship on retranslation theory that views this process as a complex intersection of possible meaning for a text. Drawing on a retranslation of Guillaume Dustan’s Dans ma chambre, I suggest that retranslation...
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The University of Western Australia
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| description | Queer subjectivity is often thought of as fluid, nonlinear. This
viewpoint aligns with scholarship on retranslation theory that views this process as a complex intersection of possible meaning for a text. Drawing on a retranslation of Guillaume Dustan’s Dans ma chambre, I suggest that retranslation reinforces queer subjectivity because both avoid teleological outcomes of their processes while reexamining how Dustan illustrates his existence in relation to his disease. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-505ddeb44e8f4f68a8949bb54da7f8f02023-01-04T09:26:25ZengThe University of Western AustraliaEssays in French Literature and Culture1835-70402022-10-0159123142Subjectivity and Seropositivity: Retranslating Guillaume Dustan" [Subjectivité et séropositivité: Retraduire Guillaume Dustan]Daniel Nabil Maroun0University of IllinoisQueer subjectivity is often thought of as fluid, nonlinear. This viewpoint aligns with scholarship on retranslation theory that views this process as a complex intersection of possible meaning for a text. Drawing on a retranslation of Guillaume Dustan’s Dans ma chambre, I suggest that retranslation reinforces queer subjectivity because both avoid teleological outcomes of their processes while reexamining how Dustan illustrates his existence in relation to his disease.https://wordpress.com/page/essaysinfrenchliteratureandculture.com/1174guillaume dustanseropositivityretranslationdiscursivequeer subjectivity |
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| title | Subjectivity and Seropositivity: Retranslating Guillaume Dustan" [Subjectivité et séropositivité: Retraduire Guillaume Dustan] |
| title_full | Subjectivity and Seropositivity: Retranslating Guillaume Dustan" [Subjectivité et séropositivité: Retraduire Guillaume Dustan] |
| title_fullStr | Subjectivity and Seropositivity: Retranslating Guillaume Dustan" [Subjectivité et séropositivité: Retraduire Guillaume Dustan] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Subjectivity and Seropositivity: Retranslating Guillaume Dustan" [Subjectivité et séropositivité: Retraduire Guillaume Dustan] |
| title_short | Subjectivity and Seropositivity: Retranslating Guillaume Dustan" [Subjectivité et séropositivité: Retraduire Guillaume Dustan] |
| title_sort | subjectivity and seropositivity retranslating guillaume dustan subjectivite et seropositivite retraduire guillaume dustan |
| topic | guillaume dustan seropositivity retranslation discursive queer subjectivity |
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