MACUNAÍMA AND THE INVISIBLE TRANSLATOR

Authors

  • Marcia Moura da Silva Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

Macunaíma occupies a prominent place in the Brazilian literary canon. However, its release in 1928 was troubled, and its creator was accused of plagiarising the work by German ethnographer Koch-Grünberg, who recorded the stories told by two Indigenous Brazilians. Instead of rebutting the criticism, Mário de Andrade declares, "yes, I did copy it". The modernist writer transports the hero and his brothers across the forest to the city of São Paulo, at the same time reproducing the indigenous narratives and creating new ones. Drawing on Torop's (2010) types of translation and Venuti's (2008) concept of translator's invisibility, I propose that Andrade's work could be considered a translation and that the author takes on a dual role of author and translator.

Keywords: Macunaíma; Translation Studies, Translation Types; Translator’s Invisibility.

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Author Biography

Marcia Moura da Silva, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Com Mestrado e Doutorado em Estudos da Tradução pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), atualmente é Professora Adjunta no Instituto de Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) e vice-coordenadora do Núcleo de Estudos da Tradução Olga Fedossejeva (NET) na mesma instituição.

Published

2023-08-03

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