Translating the Queer: A feasible option?

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to discuss how (if possible) we should translate the idea of 'queer' (as in 'queer theory' from English to Portuguese. Our interest is not simply to translate the word 'queer', but to discuss what could be gained or loss in the process of translation and adaptation of queer theory from Anglophone to Lusophone contexts, in terms of the articulation of the theory in cultural analysis and literary criticism outside the Anglophone contexts.