O colonialismo linguístico britânico na Irlanda e na Índia: Uma comparação entre Translations de Brian Friel e a literatura contemporânea anglófona indiana

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2595-8127.v24i2p55-69

Palavras-chave:

Irlanda, India, Colonialismo linguístico, Brian Friel, Literatura indiana anglófona

Resumo

Irlanda e Índia possuem uma herança cultural de longa data e também compartilham semelhanças em certos traços coloniais. Este artigo visa a analisar o fenômeno do colonialismo linguístico – neste caso, a imposição da língua inglesa – e suas características, traçando um paralelo literário entre a Irlanda e a Índia. Através da comparação de trechos de Translations de Brian Friel e passagens da literatura indiana anglófona contemporânea, este trabalho investigará as semelhanças e diferenças entre as experiências destas duas antigas colônias britânicas. Enquanto a peça de Friel é ambientada em Donegal do século XIX, alguns dos exemplos da literatura indiana anglófona contemporânea que são fornecidos se estendem para trás para alcançar o século XIX, enquanto outros se envolvem com os tempos contemporâneos e o legado do colonialismo linguístico. As características do colonialismo linguístico que vou examinar são tratadas em três seções que se concentram no mapeamento e na tradução, no tratamento de topônimos e nomes, e na relação entre escola e língua.

Biografia do Autor

  • Costanza Mondo, University of Turin

    Costanza Mondo is an MA student of Modern Languages and Literatures at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures at the University of Turin, Italy. Her thesis, entitled “Uses of Satire in A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and The Cockroach by Ian McEwan”, is concerned with satiric devices and the ties of the genre of satire with historical context. Interested in Postmodernism and Postcolonial literature, she is currently investigating Ecocriticism, African Anglophone literature and contemporary English literature. Other research interests include, but are not limited to, intertextuality, cultural identity, storytelling and processes of community-forging. The authors she focused on are Abdulrazak Gurnah, Damon Galgut, Christy Lefteri, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. As far as Indian Anglophone literature is concerned, she recently published papers on Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh and Amnesty by Aravind Adiga.

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2022-04-15

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v. 24 n. 2 (2022): ABEI Journal 24.2

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Mondo, C. (2022). O colonialismo linguístico britânico na Irlanda e na Índia: Uma comparação entre Translations de Brian Friel e a literatura contemporânea anglófona indiana. ABEI Journal, 24(2), 55-69. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2595-8127.v24i2p55-69