Translating gender and sexuality in children’s literature: Turkey as a case study

• Demirhan, Handegül ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat de Vic

     Universitat de Vic

     Vich, España

     
• Localización: MonTI: Monografías de traducción e interpretación, ISSN 1889-4178, ISSN-e 1989-9335, Nº. 14, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Traducción e intermedialidad en literatura infantil y juvenil (LIJ): orígenes, evolución y nuevas tendencias / coord. por Pino Valero Cuadra , Gisela Marcelo Wirnitzer , Nuria Pérez Vicente ), págs. 149-179
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.6035/MonTI.2022.14.05
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  • español

    A partir de cinco traducciones al turco de obras de literatura infantil, sobre sexualidad, este artículo presenta los orígenes, desarrollos y tendencias del género sexual, así como el dilema entre la pedagogía de género y los temas tabú estrechamente relacionados con la sexualidad y la política corporal en la literatura infantil y su traducción en diferentes contextos. Particularmente centrado en el contexto de Turquía, donde la sexualidad y la política corporal siempre han sido temas controvertidos, este texto pretende arrojar alguna luz sobre el asunto. En resumen, el estudio de las traducciones al turco de literatura infantil puede presentar resultados reveladores en términos de la comprensión de la sexualidad y el viaje del contenido sexual y político-corporal de un contexto a otro.

  • English

    Drawing on the translations of sexuality in five Turkish translations of children’s literature, this paper starts with introducing the origins, developments, and trends of gender as well as the dilemma between gender pedagogy and taboo issues closely related to the sexuality and body politics in children’s literature and its translation in different contexts.2 Particularly focusing on the context of Turkey where sexuality and body politics have always been controversial issues, the paper intends to shed some light on the matter. Thus, the examination of Turkish translations of children’s literature can yield eye-opening outcomes in terms of the understanding of sexuality and the travel of sexual and body-political content from one context to another.

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