Writing and living on the stage of history


Autoria(s): Sarmento, Clara
Data(s)

05/02/2016

31/03/2016

2015

Resumo

This article studies the intercultural trajectory of a Portuguese female aristocrat of the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries. Her trajectory of intercultural transition from a Portuguese provincial lady into an independent owner of a sugar mill in tropical Bahia is documented through family letters, which provide a polyphonic representation of a movement of personal, family, and social transculturation over almost two decades. Maria Bárbara began her journey between cultures as a simple spectator-reader, progressively becoming a commentator-actor-protagonist-author in society, in politics, and in history. These letters function as a translation that is sometimes consecutive, other times simultaneous, of the events lived and witnessed. This concept of intercultural translation is based on the theories of Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2006, 2008), who argues that cultural differences imply that any comparison has to be made using procedures of proportion and correspondence which, taken as a whole, constitute the work of translation itself. These procedures construct approximations of the known to the unknown, of the strange to the familiar, of the ‘other’ to the ‘self’, categories which are always unstable. Likewise, this essay explores the unstable contexts of its object of study, with the purpose of understanding different rationalities and worldviews.

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/7637

10.1179/1468273715Z.000000000123

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Taylor & Francis

Relação

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/1468273715Z.000000000123

Direitos

embargoedAccess

Palavras-Chave #Brazil #Portugal #Power #Gender #intercultural translation #Brasil #Poder #Género #Tradução intercultural
Tipo

article