Translating the homoerotic from and into Russian
Valerii Pereleshin’s translation of “Imitation of the Arabic”, Alexandrian Songs and “Antinous”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16952807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kadence Leung (University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 17 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | RUS (São Paulo) (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2317-4765 • E-ISSN: 2317-4765 |
| Publisher | Universidade de Sao Paulo, Agencia USP de Gestao da Informacao Academica (AGUIA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11606/issn.2317-4765.rus.2020.176144 |
| OpenAlex | W3115791620 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The translation of a text with homoerotic content reveals complex political, social and cultural contestation in the transnationalization of sexual desire and identity. This article examines the translations of homoerotic poetry by Russian émigré writer Valerii Pereleshin from and into Russian. Pereleshin’s different approaches in his inverse translation (Pushkin’s “Imitating the Arabic” and Kuzmin’s Alexandrian Songs) and direct translation (Pessoa’s “Antinous”) demonstrate how translation choices are governed by the interplay of discourses of same-sex desires in different cultural contexts, as well the poet-translator’s expression of sexual otherness
Aesthetics · Arabic · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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