Joanna Orska: Re-queering of Translation (Komparatistické středy)

Name: Joanna Orska: Re-queering of Translation (Komparatistické středy)
Start: 2026-03-25T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-25T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Hybernská 3/1, 110 00 Praha, Česko

Schedule

Wed Mar 25 2026 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Hybernská 3/1, 110 00 Praha, Česko | Prague, PR

Srdečně Vás zveme na další Komparatistickou středu, která proběhne 25. března 2026 (17:30 Šporkův palác, místnost 206).
Vystoupí prof. dr hab. Joanna Orska (Uniwersytet Wrocławski) s přednáškou “Re-queering of Translation” – with Special Reference to the Poetry of Frank O'Hara
ℹ️ I address the problem of the reception of translations from the poetry of the New York School. In the late 1980s and early 1990s in Poland this reception was determined by issues of political transformation, which precluded the possibility of reading O’Hara’s poetry in relation to queer studies. O’Hara’s works, whose style and strategies largely depend on camp stylistics, present a distinctly queer character. Through the setting of Piotr Sommer’s translations in Twoja pojedynczość (1987), the metatexts collected for the publication of O'Hara's poems in the New York issue of “Literatura na Świecie” (1986: 7), and finally through poetic allusions in the translated poet's texts, this element was exposed in a sufficiently expressive way. Neither in the 1990s nor later has the ‘queer orientation’ of O'Hara’s poetry shape the Polish reception of his work in any way.
Reading: https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/requeerowanie-przekladu-ze-szczegolnym-odniesieniem-do-franka-ohary
🎥 Online přístup: https://1url.cz/@orska
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