Queering translation history : : Shakespeare's sonnets in Czech and Slovak transformations / / Eva Spišiaková.

• Superior document: Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies
• VerfasserIn: Spišiaková, Eva,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, London : : Routledge,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge advances in translation studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (135 pages)

"This innovative work challenges normative binaries in contemporary translation studies and applies frameworks from queer historiography to the discipline to explore shifting perceptions of same-sex love and desire in translations and retranslations of William Shakespeare's Sonnets"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Mapping the History of - and in - Queer Translation Studies -- The Method: Translating Sonnets -- Overview -- Notes on Terminology -- Notes on Language -- Chapter 1 Queering Czechoslovakia's History -- The First Czechoslovak Republic and the Second World War -- Socialist Czechoslovakia -- The Velvet Revolution -- Divided Paths after 1993 -- Chapter 2 A Century of Sonnets -- Shakespeare's Sonnets -- The Sonnets in Czechoslovakia -- The First Full Translation -- The Six Socialist Sonnets -- Book Production in Socialist Czechoslovakia -- Socialist Censorship -- Velvet Revolution, Divided Nations, and Eight More Sonnets -- Chapter 3 The Master Mistress of My Passion -- Gendering Languages -- Gendering Sonnets -- Gendering Translations -- Various Recipients -- Female-Addressed Sonnets -- Male-Addressed and Neutral Sonnets -- Chapter 4 I Love Thee in Such Sort -- The Lover -- The Friend -- From Lovers to Friends -- Gods and Children -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A -- Index.