Drag language translation on RuPaul’s Drag Race: a study on representation through subtitles

• Autor(a) principal: Tavares, Jeremias Lucas
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Branco, Sinara de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Letras Raras
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.editora.ufcg.edu.br/index.php/RLR/article/view/2102
• topic: Audiovisual Translation; Subtitling; Drag language; RuPaul’s Drag Race

: Since 2009, the reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race has been spreading drag culture and language from the United States in many other countries in the world, such as Brazil. The audience, which may speak languages other than English, has access to RuPaul’s Drag Race through subtitling and dubbing. The study of the translation of this reality show is very relevant, since in oppressive governments, as in Brazil and in the United States, the academic production about/by women, people of color and LGBTQIs is indispensable. Therefore, the drag language translation through the subtitles of RuPaul’s Drag Race is discussed, by studying the language present in the reality show, its aspects and its meanings, and by analyzing the representation of the drag language translation to Brazilian Portuguese. The theoretical framework for this article is composed by the theories of Audiovisual Translation, focusing on subtitling. Besides that, the drag culture and language of both United States and Brazil is discussed. The corpus of this research is composed by six images and subtitles collected from three seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race. The analysis encompasses six expressions and their translations in the subtitles. The analysis shows subtitles that translate English drag language through expressions of the Brazilian LGBTQI+ language, as well as subtitles that do not use a language similar to the one presented in the reality show. The translators seem to the aware of the culture and the language presented in the reality show.