ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how Cervantes used code-switching, translation, and etymology in Don Quixote to explore sexuality’s relationship to language and storytelling. This chapter examines how Cervantes disguises pornographic language and images, thus highlighting why the author implicates sexual desire in his theories and practices of translation, adaptation, and sequels. To that end, this chapter explores Cervantes’ interest in code-switching, translation, and etymologies as strategies for interrogating how language is necessarily implicated in all erotic undertakings—ultimately revealing the linguistic nature of sexuality as well as the sexual nature of language.
