‘Dead Words’: translated literature against the social systems of domination

Davi Silva Gonçalves

doi:10.4025/actascihumansoc.v35i2.21334

‘Dead Words’: translated literature against the social systems of domination

Authors

Davi Silva Gonçalves Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v35i2.21334

Keywords:

Hatoum, translation, local, development, Amazon region

Abstract

Since the margin is not generally given the chance to speak and since such important issues should be tackled with sensibility, the discarded discursive modulations will be discussed. Milton Hatoum’s literary treatments of Western discourses of progress and development in The Brothers (2002), and its potentialization in John Gledson’s translation of the novel will be mainly analyzed. The concepts of social hierarchy and degrees of social inferiority are a deeply rooted issue in Brazil´s colonial heritage. Similarly, the future of Brazilians who have been deeply marginalized cannot avoid the scars of the past. They are doomed to have their freedom limited to dead words.

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Author Biography

Davi Silva Gonçalves, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Possui Licenciatura em Letras Inglês e Literaturas Correspondentes pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (2010), e Bacharelado em Tradução em Língua Inglesa pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (2011). Atualmente é mestrando na área de Estudos Linguísticos e Literários em Língua Inglesa, linha de pesquisa: Intersecções Teóricas e Culturais, do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Língua Inglesa da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2012), tradutor voluntário para a Universidade do Arizona, EUA (2011) e para a OSHO International Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland (2012), atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: estudos interseccionais, literatura traduzida, estudos culturais e literatura comparada.

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Published

2013-12-20

Issue

Vol. 35 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Literature and Linguistics

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‘Dead Words’: translated literature against the social systems of domination. (2013). Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences, 35(2), 249-259. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascihumansoc.v35i2.21334