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“When Said with a Sneer”: Translating Language, Race, and Culture Through an English Football Race Controversy

2016; Wiley; Volume: 28; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/ciso.12095

ISSN

1548-744X

Autores

Daniel Renfrew, GENESIS M. SNYDER,

Tópico(s)

Translation Studies and Practices

Resumo

Abstract This article examines the origins and aftermath of a 2011 English football race controversy, where an English Football Association tribunal found Uruguayan Luis Suárez guilty of using racially abusive language against Patrice Evra, a Frenchman of Senegalese descent. It approaches the Suárez‐Evra controversy as a flashpoint of broader transformations in England, France, and Uruguay associated with sports, race, and nationalism, highlighting the problematic nature of cultural and linguistic translation under shifting racial, ethnic, and cultural dynamics. The controversy also provided an opportunity for Afro‐Uruguayans to collectively denounce and redress longstanding forms of racism in that country. [Soccer (football); Race; Globalization; England; France; Uruguay]

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