Open Access“Reinas unidas jamás serán vencidas”: Drag queens in the Iberian Spanish voice-over of RuPaul’s Drag Race
Author(s) -
Davide Passa
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
trans
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.11
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2603-6967
pISSN - 1137-2311
DOI - 10.24310/trans.2021.v1i25.11450
Subject(s) - drag , performative utterance , history , sociology , aesthetics , art , physics , mechanics
RuPaul’s Drag Race (2009 – present) is an American reality television programme launched by RuPaul Charles, which has turned drag queens into a mainstream phenomenon. After briefly analysing the controversial figure of the drag queen in the light of Judith Butler’s performative turn, as well as drag lingo following Keith Harvey’s framework for identifying camp talk, this research aims at investigating the European Spanish voice-over of Seasons 8 (2016), 9 (2017) and 10 (2018). This work seeks primarily to analyse the choices that are made in the target text to characterise drag queens in the localised European Spanish version available on Netflix. The translation procedures mentioned in this study are partly adapted from Ranzato’s (2015) classification for culture-specific references. The analysis focuses mainly on the creative rendering of (semi-)homophony, drag terms, references to pop culture and grammatical gender.