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Taboo transactions: an initial diachronic approach to translation and sex work

dc.contributor.authorDuffy, Emily Marie Passos
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T12:03:12Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T12:03:12Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-31
dc.description.abstractTranslation is an ever-evolving form of transmission that carries with it ideas, hopes, politics, poetics, and desires. Building upon Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s assertion that “translation is the most intimate form of reading,” the present paper explores translation as a form of labor that can be described as intimate through metaphor and history. This paper offers a diachronic perspective on translation and erotic labor through the lens of metaphor, theory and translation history, and proposes that the marginal nature of both sex work and translation reflects a cultural aversion to alterity or otherness. Situated within these overlaps, this paper will trace 1) erotic dimensions of translation depicted through theory and metaphor; 2) a discussion on the figure of the yoginī from Hindu Tantric religion as well as the colonial construct of “sleeping dictionaries” as translator/ consort figures; and 3) examples from the contemporary intersections of translation, global commerce, and sex work.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.eid85165596160
dc.identifier.issn2184-4585
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/43706
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectGlobalizationpt_PT
dc.subjectProstitutionpt_PT
dc.subjectSex Workpt_PT
dc.subjectSleeping Dictionarypt_PT
dc.subjectTranslation and Intimacypt_PT
dc.subjectTranslation Metaphorspt_PT
dc.subjectYoginīpt_PT
dc.titleTaboo transactions: an initial diachronic approach to translation and sex workpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage119pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue2pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage106pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleTranslation Matterspt_PT
oaire.citation.volume4pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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