James S. Holmes, Translation Studies, and the Queer Ethics of the First Person
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2022.e82726Keywords:
James Holmes, Queer sexuality, Leather, Dutch-English Translation, VisibilityAbstract
The academic discipline known as translation studies is already queer, and has been since its very inception: conceived by openly gay scholar and activist James S. Holmes to work between the borders of academic categorization, translation studies still draws on these early maps and models to imagine itself and its continually shifting coordinates, often at the margins of theoretical activity. Holmes was as concerned with life as a gay activist in Amsterdam and its burgeoning leather scene as he was with translating Dutch-language poetry with his Dutch partner, to say nothing of producing the seminal research to the development of translation studies as a separate academic discipline. Is there a particular ethics of speaking of the self and its desires in this disciplinary context? In order to answer this question, this paper revisits the professional activity and figure of the translator, a complex cultural and linguistic entity characterized by desires, pas[s]ions and political engagements that go far beyond the act of translation.
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