"Reader, I married him/ her": Ali Smith, Ovid, and queer translation
(2019)
Journal Article
Ranger, H. (2019). "Reader, I married him/ her": Ali Smith, Ovid, and queer translation. Classical Receptions Journal, 11(3), 231-255. https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clz009
This essay discusses Ali Smith's queer translation of Ovid Metamorphoses 9.666-797 in her 2007 novel Girl meets boy. I argue that Smith's presentation of a contemporary gender-queer Iphis and Ianthe not only fictionalizes the critical argument propos... Read More about "Reader, I married him/ her": Ali Smith, Ovid, and queer translation.