Censored identity:Representation and manipulation of homosexuality in the play "Tea and Sympathy"

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  • Antonio J. Martínez Pleguezuelos Universidad de Salamanca
  • J. David González-Iglesias González Universidad de Salamanca

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qf-elit.v20i0.7528

Abstract

This article analyzes the consequences of the acts of censorship on the representation of homosexual identity. To do so, we carry out an English- Spanish contrastive study of the American play Tea and Sympathy (1953), by Robert Anderson, and its cinema adaptation in 1956. We will start from the concept of “censorship” which Butler presents to examine the sexually connoted lexical selection that has been chosen for both languages, together with the omissions, the semantic and syntactic structures and even the plot alterations applied by censors in order to assess the representation of reality and the asymmetries that are created in the process of translation according to the heterocentric symbolic systems that prevailed at the historical context.

Keywords: censorship; identity; homosexuality; Tea and Sympathy.

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Antonio J. Martínez Pleguezuelos, Universidad de Salamanca

Department of Translation and Interpreting

J. David González-Iglesias González, Universidad de Salamanca

Department of Translation and Interpreting

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2015-12-29

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Martínez Pleguezuelos, A. J., & González-Iglesias González, J. D. (2015). Censored identity:Representation and manipulation of homosexuality in the play "Tea and Sympathy". Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Literaris, 20, 53–67. https://doi.org/10.7203/qf-elit.v20i0.7528
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Vol. 20 (2015): TRANSLATION AND CENSORSHIP: NEW PERSPECTIVES

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