Traduzindo literatura da diáspora africana: os mundos poéticos de Conceição Evaristo em poemas da recordação e outros movimentos

Abstract

The artistry of translation, in and of itself, is an intellectual and cultural enterprise that requires a certain amount of delicacy and cultural negotiation. It is important to highlight that central to the process of translation is the interpolation of culture, as poetic works engender a fundamental component of culture itself, that being language. Intercultural translation, as a part of the discipline of Translation Studies, requires a close cultural analysis in terms of form and content in order to approximate socially constructed meanings from the original cultural context into the appropriated language/culture of transmission. In as much, the task of translating Conceição Evaristo’s Poemas da recordação e outros movimentos (Evaristo, 2008) (Poems of recollection and other movements) was for both of us - translators - a process laden with idiosyncratic challenge, neologistic creation, visceral employment, metaphysical cultural transcendence, and creative re-writing. The work, completed in 2013, for different reasons, will only be published fully as a bilingual edition this year.