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Introduction: Textual and Sexual Orientations -- Queering Translation, or What Queer Theory Can Do for Translation Studies -- Queering Global Sexuality Studies, or Translation and Unease -- Queering the Gay Anthology, Part I: Evolution in/of a Genre -- ur Queering the Gay Anthology, Part II: From Appropriation to Consecration to Incorporation -- Keep the Lyric Queer, or Poetic Translation as Reparative Reading -- From Sexual Dissidence to Sexual Dissonance: Translating the Queer Life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf -- Conclusion: Uneasy Reading, or Putting the Trans* in Translation Studies.

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This article discusses the anglophone reception of the life and work of the East German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Particular attention is paid to the translation and marketing of von Mahlsdorf's memoir against the backdrop of Eastern Europe's purported transition to Western capitalist democracy. Using the concept of framing developed first by Erving Goffman and adapted to the study of translation by Albrecht Neubert and Gregory Shreve, and then Mona Baker, the author analyzes the ways in which the presentation of von Mahlsdorf's life in the translated memoir reflects a specific Western framing of queer lives, which is later altered in Doug Wright's award-winning play about von Mahlsdorf following the release of von Mahlsdorf's secret police file and the troubled progress of the so-called transition. The article demonstrates how the careful study of translations can challenge the universalizing of Western conceptual and temporal frames by highlighting the historical and contingent nature of our sexual selves.

This article examines the workings of the sexual closet within the enormously popular genre of the Russiandetektiv, or detective story. Informed by the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and D. A. Miller, the article focuses on the dramatization of homosexual panic among various male characters in Aleksandra Marinina'sStilist(1996) and Boris Akunin'sKoronatsiia(2001) in order to explore the experience of masculine subjectivity in post-Soviet culture. In both novels, a perceived crisis in patriarchal authority unleashes suspicions and anxieties regarding the experience of being and becoming a man, which is defined against the feminine and the homosexual. Figured both as an effect of and as a threat to male-male bonds, homosexual panic testifies to the interiorization of sexual and gender norms, which makes being male a highly self-conscious enterprise and fuels nostalgia for a mythic time before the appearance of homosexuality.

Standing at the intersection of Visual Studies and Queer Studies, the volume Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performance exposes and explores the queer imagery and sensibilities in works of visual art in pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet contexts and beneath the surface of conventional histories of Russian art.

Introduction:Queer(ing) translation /Brian James Baer and Klaus Kaindl --1Sexuality and translation as intimate partners? Toward a Queer Turn in rewriting identities and desires /José Santaemilia --2A scene of intimate entanglements, or, reckoning withg the "fuck" of translation /Elena Basile --3Beyond Either/Or: confronting the fact of translation in global sexuality studies /Brian James Baer --4The future is a foreign country: translation and temporal critique in the Italian It Get Better project /Serena Bassi --5Ethnography and queer translation /Evren Savci --6In all his finery: Frederik Marryat's The Pacha of Many Tales as drag /James St. André --7Transgenderism in Japanese manga as radical translation: The Journey to the West gies to Japan /Leo Tak-Hung Chan --8Speaking silence and silencing speech: the translations of grand duke Konstantin Romanov as queer writing /Sergey Tyulenev --9Translation's queerness: Giovanni Bianchi and John Cleland writing same-sex desire in the eighteenth century /Clorinda Donato --10Literary censorship and homosexuality in Kádár-regime Hungary and Estado Novo Portugal /Zsófia Gombár --11On three modes of translating queer literary texts /Marc Démont --12Queering lexicography: balancing power relations in dictionaries /Eva Nossem --13Queer translation as performative and affective un-doing: translating Butler's Undoing Gender into Italian /Michela Baldo --14Years yet yesterday: translating art, activism and AIDS across the visual and the verbal /Mark Addison Smith.