Orgulho negro na música contemporânea: uma tradução de My power e Black parade

Abstract

The following final course assignment analyzes the translations, made into Portuguese - Brazilian, developed by the researcher/translator himself, of the songs “MY POWER” and “Black Parade”, which are present in the audiovisual work of the singer and composer Beyoncé. The main objectives of this assignment were to realize and analyze the products resulting from the translations of the songs "MY POWER" and "Black Parade", from the processual biases of translation, which is affirmed by the theorists Even-Zohar, with his Polysystems Theory, Gideon Toury, in Descriptive Studies of Translation, Lanzetti, Bessa, et al and their valuable Translation Procedures, Susan Bassnett, with the postulates of literary translation, André Lefevere, through the prism of the actions of literary patronage, and also through the bias of black pride, with input from theorists Homi K. Bhabha and Maria Tymoczko, dealing with aspects of postcolonialism and cultures considered peripheral. In addition to realizing and analyzing the products of these translations, the aim of this assignment was also to verify the relevance of the studied songs to the Brazilian cultural polysystem, based on the analysis of cultural exchanges provided by the literary stamps presented in Beyoncé's artwork. It was found that, even in different cultural polysystems, it is possible to notice similar points between the American and Brazilian cultures, as both cultures benefit from a cultural origin partially derived from African peoples. It is also concluded from this study that the Brazilian cultural polysystem can benefit from the literary stamp of the composer Beyoncé, who merges the elements of black pride, postcolonial social denunciation, ostentation and Afrofuturism.