Breaking Binaries: Rethinking Gendered Metaphors in Translation Theory

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dc.contributor.advisorGuzman, Maria Constanza
dc.contributor.authorHow, Laura Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-11T12:57:53Z
dc.date.available2020-05-11T12:57:53Z
dc.date.copyright2020-01
dc.date.issued2020-05-11
dc.date.updated2020-05-11T12:57:52Z
dc.degree.disciplineTranslation Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractIn efforts to understand the complexity of translation, theorists have often turned to metaphor. As Lori Chamberlain (1988) shows, some of these metaphors have mirrored the androcentric hierarchy of Western society, subordinating women and translation. Since the 1980s, feminist translation theorists and translators have sought to dismantle this patriarchal view of translation using woman-centred metaphors. However, their understandings of womanhood and gender often exclude genderqueer and trans identities. In the past decade, translation studies research on queer and trans issues and representation has grown, though it has largely been written from white Western academic and literary perspectives. This thesis investigates the inclusivity of gendered metaphors of translation in feminist, queer, and trans translation theory. I suggest that if translation studies is to represent the diversity of gender identities that exist worldwide, attention must be paid to this works accessibility, to intersections of oppression, and to marginalized understandings of gender.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/37488
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subject.keywordsTranslation
dc.subject.keywordsTranslation studies
dc.subject.keywordsMetaphor
dc.subject.keywordsMetaphorics
dc.subject.keywordsGender
dc.subject.keywordsQueer
dc.subject.keywordsNon-binary
dc.subject.keywordsTrans
dc.subject.keywordsFeminist
dc.subject.keywordsIntersectionality
dc.titleBreaking Binaries: Rethinking Gendered Metaphors in Translation Theory
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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