O romance Amada de Toni Morrison: espaço, dialeto e identidade das personagens femininas em tradução

Abstract

A Translation can, besides acting with a communication function, transpose information from one language to another, and also transpose cultures. Awareness of cultural and political differences is primordial in the moment of translation. In the trajectory of the history of translation, we become aware of how literary translation is present so that there is a relationship of exchange between different realities. Thus, this study aims to identify the cultural and post-colonialist marks in the Brazilian translation of the novel Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison to Amada (2007), translated by José Rubens Siqueira, as well as its characteristics of a minorizing translation. For this, it was necessary to explore the cultural, literary and dialectal transposition of the novel in relation to aspects of the diaspora and the constitution of identity. In addition, marks were also observed at the macro and micro textual levels of the translated work regarding the configuration of the identity of the post-colonial subject through the marks of spatiality, dialect and the experiences of the female characters. Also, the insertion of the author and her novels in the Brazilian cultural and literary polysystem is analyze. The theoretical framework comprises authors from translation studies, such as Itamar Even-Zohar (2013), Lawrence Venuti (2002), José Lambert and Hendrik Van Gorp (2011) and Rafael Lanzetti et al. (2009), Maria Tymoczko(1999). In addition, the authors who support us on topics about culture and postcolonialism are Homi Bhabha (1998), Stuart Hall (1998), among others. We realized with the micro-level analysis of the text that some cultural marks of identity and some constructions of meaning are absent in the Brazilian translation of Beloved (1987). However, there are significant adaptations of the novel in its translation into the Brazilian cultural and literary polysystem.