Subjectivity and Seropositivity: Retranslating Guillaume Dustan

Queer subjectivity is often thought of as fluid, nonlinear. This viewpoint aligns with scholarship on retranslation theory that views this process as a complex intersection of possible meaning for a text. Drawing on a retranslation of Guillaume Dustan’s Dans ma chambre, I suggest that retranslation reinforces queer subjectivity because both avoid teleological outcomes of their processes while reexamining how Dustan illustrates his existence in relation to his disease.