Among Languages: Translation and Literatures of the South
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i41p50-69Keywords:
Languages and translations in confrontation, Literatures of the South, “National languages”, Verbal artifacts in literary systemsAbstract
This article proposes that the translation violence of the colonising process – in terms of the confrontation between oral languages and ones with written grammars – coupled with the institutionalisation of a given language as the national one, contains both a memory of the silencing of indigenous languages and cultures, and of transculturation (ORTIZ). The latter, in turn, manifests itself, among other ways, through books that in different ways deal with the relationship between the West and descendants of the first-nation peoples of South America (especially in Circum-Roraima, the triple-border region between Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana) and those of African descent (particularly in discussions about the use of the coloniser’s language or the indigenous languages by writers from former colonies).
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