Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / B.J. Epstein and Robert Gillett -- Re-mapping translation : queerying the crossroads / Shalmalee Palekar -- Queering narratives and narrating queer : colonial queer subjects in the Arab world / Nour Abu Assab -- Revealing and concealing the masquerade of translation and gender : double-crossing the text and the body / Emily Rose -- A poetics of evasion : the queer translations of Aleksei Apukhtin / Brian James Baer -- Translation failure in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room / Margaret Sönser Breen -- Globally queer? : Taiwanese homotextualities in translation / Andrea Bachner -- Queer translation/translating queer during the "gay boom" in Japan / Jeffrey Angles -- Gaps to watch out for : Alison Bechdel in German / Robert Gillett -- Eradicalisation : eradicating the queer in children's literature / B.J. Epstein -- The queer story of your conception : translating sexuality and racism in Beasts of the southern wild / Jacob Breslow -- The translation of desire : queering visibility in Nathalie and Chloe / Clara Bradbury-Rance -- Translation and the art of lesbian failure in Monique Wittig's the lesbian body / Miller Oberman -- Queering translation : rethinking gender and sexual politics in the spaces between languages and cultures / William J. Spurlin -- Index.