Considerations for translating “Grande Sertão: Veredas” into Libras

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i44.1143

Keywords:

Libras, Translation, Translator-Actor, Deaf Translation Norms, Grande Sertão, Veredas.

Abstract

This essay provides an annotated translation with commentary of the title and opening three short sentences of João Guimarães Rosa’s “Grande Sertão: Veredas” from Portuguese into Brazilian Sign Language, Libras. A Libras translation uses elements of space and highly iconic structures to recreate the story is a visual form.  The commentary here considers the challenges involved in translating the brief section of the Portuguese text, including accommodation of deaf literary norms to those of contemporary Brazilian society, the search for appropriate Libras signs for the regionally specific context of the novel, the needs of a deaf audience to see the visual aspects of the story, and the decisions made on how to represent GuimarãesRosa’s idiosyncratic style of Portuguese in Libras. It highlights the importance of the sign language translator working as a “translator-actor” where the written text told in first person is translated into Libras, producing a translation that is embodied and presented by the translator, who takes the role of the narrator’s “I”.

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Author Biography

Rachel Sutton-Spence, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Letras-Libras, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil

Possui graduação em Bachelor of Arts in Experimental Psychology - University of Oxford (1987) e doutorado em Estudos Surdos - University of Bristol (1995). Atualmente é professora da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Tem experiência na área de Letras, com ênfase em Estudos Literarios, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: libras, línguas de sinais, literatura surda, poesia e literatura sinalizada. É líder do Grupo de Pesquisa Literatura em Línguas de Sinais na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

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Published

2018-04-29

How to Cite

Sutton-Spence, R. (2018). Considerations for translating “Grande Sertão: Veredas” into Libras. Revista Da Anpoll, 1(44), 192–206. https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i44.1143