Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address

Douglas Robinson is one of the world’s leading translation scholars, and cis-gendered in a male body. Author or editor of two dozen books and five dozen articles on translation, literature, linguistics, rhetoric, writing, and gender, he is Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.

• List of FiguresPermissionsPreface AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Why Should Cisnormative Translation Scholars Care About Translation and Transgender?Chapter 2. The Semiosphere Must Be Fed by at Least Two LanguagesChapter 3. New Worlds (the Emergence of the Unexpected): The Ecology of Gender as a Dissipative System Chapter 4. Becoming-Trans: The Rhizomatics of GenderConcludingly: (Peri)Performative Becoming-QueerNotesWorks Cited Index

Douglas Robinson deftly maps the tangled switch-points to be found at the intersection of translation and transgender, foregrounding attention to how transgender concepts, texts, and voices are translated from one language to another, in order to broach fundamental questions regarding how meaning must be carried across difference by any intention to communicate. It offers a smart take on issues of translation and language in transgender studies and its foundational critical texts, as well as a useful introduction to transgender studies for translation studies scholars.