Queer in Translation -- Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- 1 Re-mapping Translation: Queerying the Crossroads -- Translation of Queer Theory/experiences and Translation as Identity Construction -- But What Does 'Queer' Mean? -- Tracing and Erasing the Queer: Translation as both Interventionist and Repressive -- The Role of Queer/Translation in exoticization/Orientalism -- The Role of Queer/Translation in Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters -- The Iceberg Theory -- The Indian Context -- What's Cooking in the Queer Indian Kitchen and Beyond? -- In conclusion: Translators Queerying the Crossroads -- Notes -- References -- 2 Queering Narratives and Narrating Queer: Colonial Queer Subjects in the Arab World -- Queering Narratives in Colonialist Discourse -- Homoeroticism of the Arab: Shifts and Continuities -- Pre-histories of Arab Queerness -- De-queering Dominance: Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Revealing and Concealing the Masquerade of Translation and gender: Double-Crossing the Text and the Body -- Introduction -- Translating 'Madame de Sancy' -- Translating 'La Comtesse des Barres' -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 4 A Poetics of Evasion: The Queer Translations of Aleksei Apukhtin -- Queer Translation -- Apukhtin's Queer Poetics -- Queering Translation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Translation Failure in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room -- Introduction -- The Translator as Gatekeeper: David's Selective Translation of French -- Translation, Cultural Supremacy and Cultural Erasure -- Translation Dirt -- Notes -- References -- 6 Globally Queer? Taiwanese Homotextualities in Translation -- Sinophone Circulations of Queerness -- ReTranslating Gay Taiwan -- Queering Taiwan