CEAUL/ULICES - AS - Série III - nº 3 - 2012
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- Footprints in the text: assessing the impact of translation on portuguese historiographical discoursePublication . Bennett, Karen, 1962-With its penchant for complex syntax, poetic effusion and high-flown diction, Portuguese historiographical discourse has always been notoriously difficult to translate into English, often requiring extensive reformulation to make it acceptable (or even intelligible) to an Anglophone readership. However, there are now signs that it is changing, with younger scholars producing a prose that is clearer, simpler and more concise - in short, more like the hegemonic discourse familiar to English historians. As academic writing tends not to be fomally taught in Portugal, this shift may be due in part to the pressure exerted by translated texts upon historiographical discourse in Portugal. That is to say, in the present context of globalization, translators working from English into Portuguese are unlikely to feel the need to extensively domesticate the text as do their counterparts working in the opposite direction. Instead, the textual organisation, sentence structure and even vocabulary are often calqued from the original, leaving "footprints" in the Portuguese text. When these are systematically reproduced in the original writings of Portuguese historians, the result may be a wholesale shift in the norms governing the discourse, with epistemological, as well as stylistic, repercussions. This paper describes the results of a survey of English historiographical texts in Portuguese translation, focusing upon the nature of the translated material (i.e. text-type and specialty), translation strategy used and potential influence that such texts might have upon the writing style of younger historians.
- A long and winding road: mapping translated literature in 20th-century PortugalPublication . Rosa, Alexandra Assis, 1967-This paper profiles the research project Intercultural Literature in Portugal 1930-2000: A Critical Bibliography initiated in 2007 and jointly organized by the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) and the Centre for Communication and Culture, Catholic University of Lisbon (CECC). The first part of this paper describes (a) the initial project of creating a database of bibliographical records for translated literature 1930-2000, based on three main sources (the Boletim de Bibliografia Portuguesa, the Index Translationum and several catalogues by booksellers and private libraries) to be published in volume form, as well as the process of selecting data considered potentially relevant for researchers in Translation Studies; and (b) how this project developed into a more extensive search for other bibliographical records based on the initial sources, into a verification of all volumes corresponding to each entry at the National Library of Portugal and into an electronic database to be made available online. The second part of this paper discusses a selection of problems met by such an endeavor, the main benefits brought about by offering this online resource, and further research suggested by both problems and information so far identified by this project.
- Translated and non-translated spanish picaresque novels in defense of dominated languagesPublication . Maia, Rita Bueno, 1983-This article aims to explore a historical example of how translated works can work in defense of a dominated target language. It first considers the role of literary products in the struggle between dominant and dominated languages in the world republic of letters, as argued by Pascale Casanova (2004). Then, it gives evidence that the Spanish picaresque novels took part in the struggle for the autonomy of the Spanish literary language against the dominant languages in the sixteenth century, Italian and Latin. It thereafter argues that the Spanish picaresque novels in translated version took part in the struggle for the autonomy of Portuguese literary language against francesismo, i.e., the dominance of French language and culture. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the same literary products, Lazarillo de Tormes and Guzmán de Alfarache, were used in the defense of two different dominated languages: the Spanish language in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the Portuguese language in the nineteenth century.