La traducción de lo queer del espanglish en contextos audivisuales

Remy Attig

doi:10.17533/udea.mut/v16n1a03

Authors

Remy Attig Universidad Estatal de Bowling Green, Ohio https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1229-7599

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut/v16n1a03

Keywords:

audiovisual translation, spanglish, minoritized communities, queer

Abstract

Over the past decade there has been an increase in audiovisual representation of Latinx communities in the United States. More recently an unprecedented quantity of scripted Spanglish—or radical Spanish-English bilingualism—has become an important element in this portrayal. Given the transnational shift in marketing and distribution of audiovisual platforms such as Netflix, a large amount of this content has been dubbed and subtitled for Spanish-speaking audiences. In this context, this paper serves a tripartite purpose. First, it positions Spanglish as a Queer community translinguistic practice that can serve very clear purposes in texts. This breaks from existing translation scholarship which has tended to view Spanglish as a type of accented speech that predominantly furthers character development. Second, it is the first longitudinal study to consider how Spanglish av sources have been translated into Spanish. Case studies examined in this paper include Disney/Pixar’s film Coco, the Netflix sitcoms One Day at a Time and Gentefied, and the Stars drama Vida. Finally, this paper seeks to broaden Démont’s “On three modes of translating queer literary texts” (2018), suggesting that his “modes” may help us understand translation practices affecting a range of minoritized communities.

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Author Biography

Remy Attig, Universidad Estatal de Bowling Green, Ohio

Assistant Professor of Translation Studies & Spanish at Bowling Green State University. He grew up speaking Spanish and English and lived for over a decade in French-English bilingual contexts in Canada. This life experience informs his interest in the way that bilingual and multilingual identities are navigated and expressed and how they are (mis)understood by monolinguals. His research focuses on the cultural production of Spanglish, Judeo-Spanish, and Portuñol, as well as queer communities across the Anglophone and Hispanophone world and the translation of these identities for the larger societies in which the speakers live.

Remy draws from postcolonial and queer theories in translation studies, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies to explore activist and social justice movements in these communities. His work is descriptive, theoretical, and creative in nature.

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