Edwin C. GentzlerMazzei, Cristiano A2024-04-262024-04-2620072007-0910.7275/343488https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/47324This thesis focuses on the intricate representations of gay men in Brazilian Portuguese and English, and the complexities translators face when encountering such specificities. It also addresses the issue of translating out of one's native tongue and how not belonging to the receiving culture’s norms enables minority texts not to be so easily assimilated and appropriated by the dominant target language, English.Comparative literaturetranslation studiesqueerpostcolonialgay literatureBrazilian PortugueseEnglishArts and HumanitiesComparative LiteratureLatin American historythesis