Prisoner Identities: Representation, Stereotype and Intersectionality in the Translation of the Latina Woman in Orange Is the New Black

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Published: Oct 15, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.ne4.6
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Orange Is the New Black, translation, identity, intersectionality, Latina women

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Antonio J. Martínez Pleguezuelos
Universidad de Alcalá
J. David González-Iglesias
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

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In this study we approach the translation of audiovisual products as a way to construct collective and individual identities. We start from the premise that in the global era in which we live, (translated) audiovisual media contribute to the formation of intersectional identities characterized by features such as age, gender, race or sexuality. For this reason, it becomes necessary to understand translated discourse as an integral part of the social fabric. To support this statement, we study the case of the group of Latina inmates in the series Orange Is the New Black, particularly with regard to their sexuality and use of Spanish, in order to verify what asymmetries emerge from the re-creation of this minority for viewers in the original and dubbed versions of the series.

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Martínez Pleguezuelos, A. J., & González-Iglesias, J. D. (2019). Prisoner Identities: Representation, Stereotype and Intersectionality in the Translation of the Latina Woman in Orange Is the New Black. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, 173–198. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.ne4.6
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2019: Special Issue 4. Multilingualism and representation of identities in audiovisual texts
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Antonio J. Martínez Pleguezuelos, Universidad de Alcalá

Antonio J. Martínez Pleguezuelos works as an Associate Lecturer in the University of Alcalá. He holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting (U. of Granada), a Master’s Degree in Translation and Intercultural Mediation and a PhD in Translation (U. of Salamanca). He is part of the Official Research Group TRADIC “Traducción, Ideología y Cultura” of the University of Salamanca. His main research topics are Translation and Ideology, Translation and Identity, and Translation and Gender and Sexuality Studies. He has published several articles and book chapters in these fields.

J. David González-Iglesias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Juan David González-Iglesias González holds a BA in Translation and Interpreting and a PhD in Translation from the University of Salamanca. His research focuses on the technical parameters of subtitles and the evolution
of those parameters along time. His main lines of research are audiovisual translation, subtitling and accessibility and multiculturalism in audiovisual texts. He has published articles on the technical parameters of subtitles and on
multiculturalism in audiovisual translation in different international journals. Currently, he works as a lecturer in the Degree of Translation and Interpreting.

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