Nonnormative Self-Translation and Code-Switching in Argentina’s New Feminist and Queer Poetry

Abstract

This article examines the poetry of feminist writer Dolo Trenzadora (b. 1985, ­Buenos­Aires) and queer author Franco Rivero (b. 1981, Corrientes), two new voices in ­Argentinepoetry who write in both Spanish and Guarani and reflect multilingual experiencesemerging against the backdrop of a monolingual imaginary of nationhood. The analy-sis seeks to identify, within these writers’ most recent works, particular forms of “frag-mentary intratextual self-translation” and to observe how, along with code-switching,these expressions of self-translation: (1) develop a nonnormative heterolingual dis-course that defies monolingualism and troubles notions of national, gender, and sexu-al identity; and (2) resist monolingual models of Translation Studies.