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Special Issue: The Gender and Queer Politics of Translation: Literary, Historical, and Cultural Approaches

May 14, 2015 Mona Baker Publications, Translation

Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies Volume 51, Number 2, 2014 Guest Editor: William J. Spurlin Introduction The Gender and Queer Politics of Translation: New Approaches pp. 201-214 William J. Spurlin Articles A Queer and Embodied Translation: Ethics of Difference and Erotics of Distance pp. 215-230 Aarón Lacayo “Homme” peut-il vouloir dire “Femme”?: Gender and Translation in Seventeenth-Century French Moral

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Comparative Literature Studies, gay, LGBT, queer, sexuality, William J. Spurlin

Globalizing dissent, Egyptian civil society, and the limits of translation

March 15, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Egypt, Events, Events, Protest Movements, Translation

By Ahmed Refaat Mada Masr, 15 March 2015 I first heard Mona Baker two months ago in a workshop organized by the Imaginary School Program at Beirut, the art space not the city. It was called: “Prefigurative politics and creative subtitling.” During the three-hour event, Baker briefly summed up what she discusses more elaborately in her research project, “Translating the Egyptian