“Shantay you stay!” a representação do universo drag nas legendas de Rupaul‘s Drag Race: uma análise de estratégias de tradução.

Abstract

"Shantay you stay!", "condragulations", "fishy", "realness": these are some of the characteristic terms of RuPaul's Drag Race, a reality show based on the competition among drag queens to receive the title of America's Next Drag Superstar and other prizes. Like any other social group, drag queens have a slang vocabulary that is very representative and part of the formation of their identities. However, a heteronormativity, a culture of standardization of identities, does not agree with this manifestation of identities, which is not in accordance with the statements by it, in order not to accept the diversity of identity, which ranges from behaviors of sexuality to a speech of an individual. This research is an interface among Translation Studies, Queer Studies and Cultural Studies and aims to analyze the representation of the drag speech, paying attention to the strategies used by the subtitle translator in dealing with such aspects, that is, how the drag language reached the final product: whether it was maintained, substituted, smoothed or omitted. For this purpose, subtitles with terms/expressions/slang that characterize the drag speech were created and a parallel corpus created, in which the source text and the target text were placed side by side in order to verify similarities and differences, and then , to verify if the speech was heteronormativized. The research is of a bibliographic and analytical character and it has as theoretical contribution: Louro (2004/2007), Diaz Cintas and Remael (2007), Borba (2015), Hatim & Munday, (2004/2016), Baker (1999), among others.