Transgender translation translingual address List of illustrations Permissions Preface Translinguality Transgender and translation Fucking binaries A confession Structure of the book Acknowledgments 1. Why should cisnormative translation scholars care about translation and transgender 2. The semiosphere must be fed by at least two languages 3. New worlds (the emergence of the unexpected): the ecology of gender as a dissipative system 4. Becoming trans: the rhizomatics of gender. The emergence of transgender communities into the public eye over the past few decades has brought some new understanding but also renewed outbreaks of violent backlash. In Transgender Translation Translingual Address Douglas Robinson seeks to understand the Btranslational or Btranslingual dialogues between cisgendered and transgendered people. Drawing on a wide range of LGBT scholars philosophers sociologists sexologists and literary voices Robinson sets up cis trans dialogues on such issues as Bbeing born in the wrong body binary vs. anti binary sex gender identities and the nature of transition and transformation. Prominent voices in the book include Kate Bornstein C. Jacob Hale and Sassafras Lowrey. The theory of translation mobilized in the book is not the traditional equivalence based one but Callon and Latours sociology of translation as Bspeaking for someone else which grounds the study of translation in social pressures to conform to group norms. In addition however Robinson translates a series of passages from Finnish trans novels into English and explores the Btranslingual address that emerges when those English translations are put into dialogue with cis and trans scholars. Bloomsbury Publishing