REPRESENTATION, (MIS) TRANSLATION AND REWRITING IN MARIO DE ANDRADE'S MACUNAIMA AND PAULINE MELVILLE'S THE VENTRILOQUIST'S TALE
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Macunaima, The Ventriloquist´s Tale, representation, translation,Resumo
In this paper I discuss Pauline Melville´s The Ventriloquist´s Tale as a rewriting of Mario de Andrade´s Macunaima. De Andrade based his novel on a translation of the Pemon myth by Koch-Gruenberg. Pauline Melville in her turn rewrites Macunaima based on a (mis)translation of the Brazilian work into English. Therefore relevant questions regarding translation, representation and miscegenation of Amerindian people are proposed by both works.Referências
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