"Gender in Translation" by Judith Butler: A critical dialogue based on Spanish-speaking post-structuralist translation studies

Villanueva-Jordán I.; Molines-Galarza N. · Meta (Canada) (2024) · DOI: 10.7202/1121662ar

Resumen

This article addresses the essay “Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism” by Judith Butler (2019), taking the relational category “translation and gender” to develop a productive dialogue between translation studies and gender studies. Such dialogue can even be reparative if one considers that Butler falls into a linguistic and disciplinary monolingualism, in which texts and authors from the field of philosophy are privileged, excluding the contributions of other areas of knowledge. As will be argued in the first analytical part, Butler’s perspective on translation omits all reference to the field of translation studies and to the work of women scholars who have worked at the intersection of gender and translation in the last three decades. These omissions result in Butler’s essay supporting essentialist conceptions of translations while using post-structuralist theories. In the second part, the analysis integrates a set of theoretical developments of post-structuralist texts by Spanish-speaking translation scholars to problematize Butler’s assumptions. This analysis is part of a deterritorializing project aiming to surpass the Anglo-Saxon sphere of knowledge and open avenues for epistemological collaboration between gender studies and other humanistic and social disciplines based on the theoretical advances of translation.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas