La traduction culturelle, indispensable pour la communication entre les peuples, est une tâche complexe en raison de la subjectivité de ceux qui sont impliqués et des différents aspects qu´interviennent à la présentation de la culture d'origine pour la culture de la réception. La littérature est un moyen privilégié de faire la médiation entre cultures. Léon, l'Africain et A incrível e fascinante história do Capitão Mouro, de Amin Maalouf et Georges Bourdoukan, respectivement, sont des romans historiques qui présentent la culture arabo-musulmane au lecteur occidental. À travers l'Histoire, la langue, la conception d'espace, les relations interpersonnelles, les coutumes et les rituels, ils donnent la parole à une culture traditionnellement étouffée dans l'Occident, et contribuent pour la médiation de conflits. / A tradução cultural, fundamental para a comunicação entre os povos, é uma tarefa complexa, devido à subjetividade dos agentes envolvidos e aos vários aspectos que interferem na apresentação da cultura de origem para a cultura de recepção. A literatura é uma forma privilegiada de fazer esta mediação entre culturas. Léon, l´africain e A incrível e fascinante história do Capitão Mouro, de Amin Maalouf e Georges Bourdoukan, respectivamente, são romances históricos que apresentam a cultura árabe-muçulmana ao leitor ocidental. Exploram a História, a linguagem, a construção espacial, o relacionamento interpessoal, os costumes e os rituais, dando voz a uma cultura tradicionalmente sufocada no Ocidente, e com isso contribuindo para a mediação de conflitos. / The cultural translation, essential for communication between peoples, is a complex task due to the tranlator´s subjectivity and the various aspects involved in the presentation of the culture of origin for the culture of reception. The literature is a privileged way of doing this mediation between cultures. Léon, l'africain and A incrível e fascinante história do Capitão Mouro, from Amin Maalouf and Georges Bourdoukan, respectively, are historical novels that present the Arabic-Muslim culture to the Western reader. They explore the History, language, design space, interpersonal relationships, customs and rituals, giving voice to a culture traditionally smothered in the West, helping to mediate conflicts.

La traduction culturelle, indispensable pour la communication entre les peuples, est une tâche complexe en raison de la subjectivité de ceux qui sont impliqués et des différents aspects qu´interviennent à la présentation de la culture d'origine pour la culture de la réception. La littérature est un moyen privilégié de faire la médiation entre cultures. Léon, l'Africain et A incrível e fascinante história do Capitão Mouro, de Amin Maalouf et Georges Bourdoukan, respectivement, sont des romans historiques qui présentent la culture arabo-musulmane au lecteur occidental. À travers l'Histoire, la langue, la conception d'espace, les relations interpersonnelles, les coutumes et les rituels, ils donnent la parole à une culture traditionnellement étouffée dans l'Occident, et contribuent pour la médiation de conflits. / A tradução cultural, fundamental para a comunicação entre os povos, é uma tarefa complexa, devido à subjetividade dos agentes envolvidos e aos vários aspectos que interferem na apresentação da cultura de origem para a cultura de recepção. A literatura é uma forma privilegiada de fazer esta mediação entre culturas. Léon, l´africain e A incrível e fascinante história do Capitão Mouro, de Amin Maalouf e Georges Bourdoukan, respectivamente, são romances históricos que apresentam a cultura árabe-muçulmana ao leitor ocidental. Exploram a História, a linguagem, a construção espacial, o relacionamento interpessoal, os costumes e os rituais, dando voz a uma cultura tradicionalmente sufocada no Ocidente, e com isso contribuindo para a mediação de conflitos. / The cultural translation, essential for communication between peoples, is a complex task due to the tranlator´s subjectivity and the various aspects involved in the presentation of the culture of origin for the culture of reception. The literature is a privileged way of doing this mediation between cultures. Léon, l'africain and A incrível e fascinante história do Capitão Mouro, from Amin Maalouf and Georges Bourdoukan, respectively, are historical novels that present the Arabic-Muslim culture to the Western reader. They explore the History, language, design space, interpersonal relationships, customs and rituals, giving voice to a culture traditionally smothered in the West, helping to mediate conflicts.

A verificação de intertextualidade entre os contos Branca de Neve e Chapeuzinho Vermelho , dos irmãos Grimm e A menina enterrada viva e A menina dos brincos de ouro , de Câmara Cascudo, dá indícios de uma tradução cultural específica do Nordeste brasileiro, a qual, além de atualizar arquétipos e interditos sociais, está adequada aos objetivos do Movimento Regionalista do Nordeste, projeto cultural idealizado por Gilberto Freyre em 1926, em prol da valorização daquela região. Um estudo, baseado no Manifesto Regionalista do Nordeste, possibilita a verificação da prática cotidiana de tradução cultural, na adaptação das narrativas populares, feita primeiramente por homens ordinários, dado o espaço de circulação dos contos. Posterior a isso, mas sem precisar o início do segundo momento da tradução, verifica-se, no trabalho do auctor social Luís da Câmara Cascudo, adepto do Movimento freyreano, a intenção de tornar essas narrativas também registros do patrimônio nacional, visto que elas foram publicadas na obra intitulada Contos tradicionais do Brasil, editada pela primeira vez em 1946. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-21T17:13:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Maria Crisitina Schefer.pdf: 498249 bytes, checksum: a3c51ad22ff96227f65f9b3df853fa62 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-21T17:13:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Maria Crisitina Schefer.pdf: 498249 bytes, checksum: a3c51ad22ff96227f65f9b3df853fa62 (MD5) / The verification of inter-quality of what is textual between Snow White and Red Small Hat from Grimm brothers and The Buried Girl Alive and The Girl of Gold Earrings from Câmara Cascudo, it gives indications of specific cultural translation of the Brazilian Northeast, which, yonder bringing up to date social archetypes and interdicts, it is adjusted to the Northeast Regionalistic Movement s objectives, idealized cultural project by Gilberto Freyre in 1926, in favor for the valorization of that region. A study based on Northeast Regionalistic Manifest makes possible the verification of the cultural translation daily practice, in the adaptation of the popular narratives, it is made first by usual men, in view of stories circulation space. Subsequent to this, but without needing the beginning as the second moment of the translation, it is found in the Luis da Câmara Cascudo s social work, follower of the Freyre s Movement, the intention to also become these narratives registers of the national patrimony, since they had been published in the entitled work Brazil s Traditional Stories, edited for the first time in 1946.

La traduction culturelle, indispensable pour la communication entre les peuples, est une tâche complexe en raison de la subjectivité de ceux qui sont impliqués et des différents aspects qu´interviennent à la présentation de la culture d'origine pour la culture de la réception. La littérature est un moyen privilégié de faire la médiation entre cultures. Léon, l'Africain et A incrível e fascinante história do Capitão Mouro, de Amin Maalouf et Georges Bourdoukan, respectivement, sont des romans historiques qui présentent la culture arabo-musulmane au lecteur occidental. À travers l'Histoire, la langue, la conception d'espace, les relations interpersonnelles, les coutumes et les rituels, ils donnent la parole à une culture traditionnellement étouffée dans l'Occident, et contribuent pour la médiation de conflits. / A tradução cultural, fundamental para a comunicação entre os povos, é uma tarefa complexa, devido à subjetividade dos agentes envolvidos e aos vários aspectos que interferem na apresentação da cultura de origem para a cultura de recepção. A literatura é uma forma privilegiada de fazer esta mediação entre culturas. Léon, l´africain e A incrível e fascinante história do Capitão Mouro, de Amin Maalouf e Georges Bourdoukan, respectivamente, são romances históricos que apresentam a cultura árabe-muçulmana ao leitor ocidental. Exploram a História, a linguagem, a construção espacial, o relacionamento interpessoal, os costumes e os rituais, dando voz a uma cultura tradicionalmente sufocada no Ocidente, e com isso contribuindo para a mediação de conflitos. / The cultural translation, essential for communication between peoples, is a complex task due to the tranlator´s subjectivity and the various aspects involved in the presentation of the culture of origin for the culture of reception. The literature is a privileged way of doing this mediation between cultures. Léon, l'africain and A incrível e fascinante história do Capitão Mouro, from Amin Maalouf and Georges Bourdoukan, respectively, are historical novels that present the Arabic-Muslim culture to the Western reader. They explore the History, language, design space, interpersonal relationships, customs and rituals, giving voice to a culture traditionally smothered in the West, helping to mediate conflicts.

A verificação de intertextualidade entre os contos Branca de Neve e Chapeuzinho Vermelho , dos irmãos Grimm e A menina enterrada viva e A menina dos brincos de ouro , de Câmara Cascudo, dá indícios de uma tradução cultural específica do Nordeste brasileiro, a qual, além de atualizar arquétipos e interditos sociais, está adequada aos objetivos do Movimento Regionalista do Nordeste, projeto cultural idealizado por Gilberto Freyre em 1926, em prol da valorização daquela região. Um estudo, baseado no Manifesto Regionalista do Nordeste, possibilita a verificação da prática cotidiana de tradução cultural, na adaptação das narrativas populares, feita primeiramente por homens ordinários, dado o espaço de circulação dos contos. Posterior a isso, mas sem precisar o início do segundo momento da tradução, verifica-se, no trabalho do auctor social Luís da Câmara Cascudo, adepto do Movimento freyreano, a intenção de tornar essas narrativas também registros do patrimônio nacional, visto que elas foram publicadas na obra intitulada Contos tradicionais do Brasil, editada pela primeira vez em 1946. / The verification of inter-quality of what is textual between Snow White and Red Small Hat from Grimm brothers and The Buried Girl Alive and The Girl of Gold Earrings from Câmara Cascudo, it gives indications of specific cultural translation of the Brazilian Northeast, which, yonder bringing up to date social archetypes and interdicts, it is adjusted to the Northeast Regionalistic Movement s objectives, idealized cultural project by Gilberto Freyre in 1926, in favor for the valorization of that region. A study based on Northeast Regionalistic Manifest makes possible the verification of the cultural translation daily practice, in the adaptation of the popular narratives, it is made first by usual men, in view of stories circulation space. Subsequent to this, but without needing the beginning as the second moment of the translation, it is found in the Luis da Câmara Cascudo s social work, follower of the Freyre s Movement, the intention to also become these narratives registers of the national patrimony, since they had been published in the entitled work Brazil s Traditional Stories, edited for the first time in 1946.

This thesis examines Augustine and Friedrich Hayek’s notion of subjectivity in the context of cultural translation theory, following Talal Asad. Previous researchers have related Hayek to political theology and economic theology by observing the notion of market’s divinizing implications and tendencies, often through generalized methods of analysis and allegorical comparison. Research treating neoliberal subjectivity seldom considers it building on Christian theological notions. Given the lack of research on the given topic, more specific the relationship between theological and neoliberal understandings of subjectivity, it is pertinent to examine neoliberal subjectivity as expressed by Hayek, by comparing to saint Augustine. By a close reading of one of western societies most important theologians, Augustine, and comparing to Hayek’s economic vision of society, this study examines how Augustine and Hayek interact by using cultural translation as a methodological framework. Augustine’s notion of God, and Hayek’s notion of the market, is analyzed as explicitly proposing, or implicitly presupposing, notions of subjectivity. Translatability and untranslatability are used as methodological concepts for discussing where Augustine and Hayek’s notions overlap and where they differ. This study demonstrates that Hayek’s understanding of subjectivity in relation to the market has comparable aspects with Augustine’s understanding of human subjectivity in relation to God. Though some aspects where the authors differ, such as the understanding of knowledge, might be described as untranslatable. Use of cultural translation theory, allows for important nuances in the relationship between theology and economic understandings of subjectivity to transpire in analysis.

Les modes de gestion et de représentation des territoires ancestraux autochtones sont encore aujourd’hui largement enclavés dans des structures rhétoriques colonialistes. Les notions de propriété privée et de frontière étatique, les mythes de la terra nullius et de la découverte, la dominance de l’écriture et la dévaluation de l’oralité, sont autant de préceptes sur lesquels s’appuient à ce jour les outils textuels législatifs et géopolitiques canadiens. Ainsi, les épistémologies autochtones se trouvent marginalisées et délégitimées au sein des lois, des cartes nationales et de certains traités, qui s’imposent comme des cadres naturalisés de création, de transmission et de négation des connaissances spatiales. Lors de processus de revendications territoriales, certains acteurs et actrices politiques se consacrent à une autochtonisation des vocabulaires et méthodologies discursives des arènes juridique et législative, parvenant à y tailler des espaces de résurgence pour les voix autochtones. Néanmoins, un tel exercice de traduction culturelle s’avère souvent hasardeux et unidirectionnel, pouvant mener à une instrumentalisation ou à une dénaturation des savoirs autochtones. Cette thèse porte sur les stratégies développées par des artistes et auteur.es autochtones qui démantèlent, autochtonisent et outrepassent les outils textuels étatiques. Elle vise à démontrer que leur articulation de récits intimes, intergénérationnels et mythologiques comme matrices théorisantes permet une réactivation des réseaux relationnels holistes qui se trouvent à la base même des lois, des pratiques de gestion territoriale et, ultimement, des modes de formation identitaire autochtones évacués des enceintes coloniales. Nous proposons ainsi que les notions de souveraineté territoriale, mémorielle et rhétorique y sont imbriquées dans une triangulation dynamique qui prend racine dans des réalités locales, tout en trouvant écho dans des réseaux transcommunautaires élargis. Dans les œuvres de Nadia Myre, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun et Alan Michelson, notamment, de même que dans les écrits théoriques ou fictionnels de Gerald Vizenor et Taiaiake Alfred, les textes coercitifs comme la Loi sur les Indiens sont soit démantelés par le biais de grammaires visuelles endogènes et de structures narratives ancestrales réactualisées, soit extraits de l’enceinte législative et projetés en des espaces de réflexions dialogiques, hétérogènes et non coloniaux. De plus, les artistes Sonny Assu, Olivia Whetung et Christi Belcourt, de même que les autrices Leanne Betasamosake Simpson et Mishuana Goeman, entre autres, initient selon nous, par leurs discours de respatialisation décoloniale, un changement paradigmatique plutôt qu’un simple renversement des relations d’autorité déséquilibrées établies et portées par les cartes nationales et cadastrales. Les récits en résurgence qui articulent leurs représentations contre-cartographiques sont récoltés et transmis par le biais de pratiques matérielles, performatives et affectives témoignant d’une survivance collective des épistémologies autochtones au sein de leurs espaces de formation identitaire, malgré les restructurations de ces territoires par des infrastructures et des discours cartographiques coloniaux. Nous souhaitons donc démontrer, par ce travail d’analyse intertextuelle, que les philosophies holistes, expérientielles et intergénérationnelles ancestrales, retravaillées au moyen des arts, des langues et des récits, fournissent des méthodologies d’effritement de vastes structures rhétoriques hégémoniques, de même que des modèles de création d’espaces transnationaux et décoloniaux d’où émergent de nouveaux possibles. / Territorial management policies and dominant ways of depicting Indigenous lands are still today extensively entrenched in colonial structures and ideologies. The concepts of private property and state borders, the doctrines of discovery and terra nullius, the devaluation of oral traditions and the domination of writing systems, are only but a few of the precepts that underpin contemporary legislative and geopolitical frameworks. Thus, Indigenous epistemologies are often marginalized and delegitimized within legislative texts, national cartography, and certain treaties, which act as all-encompassing frames of knowledge production, dissemination, and negation. During land claim negotiations, First Nations representatives devote themselves to indigenizing the vocabularies and methodologies that shape legal spheres, effectively carving out spaces of resurgence for Indigenous voices. However, such endeavors of cultural translation can prove hazardous and unidirectional, sometimes leading to Indigenous knowledges being manipulated or distorted. This thesis focuses on the strategies developed by Indigenous artists and writers who dismantle, indigenize, and bypass those state-sanctioned texts through their productions. We wish to demonstrate that these creators articulate personal, collective, and mythological stories as theoretical frameworks. In doing so, they reactivate the kinship networks that also shape ancestral laws, land management practices and modes of identity formation, which are often dismissed within colonial discourses. We argue that territorial, rhetorical, and memorial sovereignties are therefore entwined in a dynamic triangulation that simultaneously stems from a local context, and resonates on a transnational level. In Nadia Myre, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, and Alan Michelson’s artworks, as well as in Gerald Vizenor and Taiaiake Alfred’s theoretical and fictional writings, coercive texts such as the Indian Act are either dismantled through the revitalization of endogenous visual grammars and ancestral narrative structures, or extracted from the legislative sphere and relocated in spaces of dialogical, heterogenous, and non colonial reflection. Moreover, we argue that artists such as Sonny Assu, Olivia Whetung, and Christi Belourt, as well as authors like Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Mishuana Goeman, initiate a paradigmatic change rather than a simple reversal of the skewed authority dynamics conveyed by national cartography and cadastral maps. The stories they use to structure their counter-mapping discourses are harvested and transmitted through material, relational, and performance practices that attest to the survivance of Indigenous epistemologies, despite the restructuring of their traditional spaces of identity formation by colonial infrastructures and mapping tools. Throughout our inter-textual analyses, we wish to demonstrate that holistic, experiential, and ancestral philosophies, when revisited through artworks and stories, provide both decolonial methodologies that may erode hegemonic rhetorical structures, and tools to generate transnational spaces of resurgence.

This dissertation aims to contribute to the burgeoning field of Arab-American feminist critique through an exploration of the work of four contemporary Arab-American women poets: Etel Adnan (1925-), a poet and a visual artist and a writer, Naomi Shihab Nye (1952-), poet, a song writer, and a novelist, Mohja Kahf (1967-), a poet, an Islamic feminist critic and author, and Suheir Hammad (1973-), a hip-hop poet and political activist. The study traverses the intersections of stereotypical racial and Orientalist discourses with which these women contend, and which have been further complicated by being shaped against the backdrop of the “War on Terror” and hostility against Arabs, Muslims and Arab-Americans in the post-September 11 era. Hence, the study attempts to examine their poetry as a tool for resistance, and as a space for conciliating the complexities of their hyphenated identities. The last two decades of the twentieth-century saw the rise of a rich body of Arab-American women writing which has elicited increasing academic and critical interest. However, extensive scholarly and critical attention was mainly drawn to novels and non-fiction prose produced by Arab-American women writers as reflected in the huge array of anthologies, journal articles, book reviews and academic studies. Although such efforts aim to research and examine the racial politics that have impacted the community and how it relates to feminist discourses in the United States, they have rarely addressed or researched how the ramifications of these racialised politics and discourses are articulated in Arab-American women’s poetry per se. Informed by a wide range of postcolonial and United States ethnic theory and criticism, feminist discourses of women of colour such Gloria Anzaldúa's borderland theory, and Lisa Lowe's discussions of ethnic cultural formations in addition to transnational feminism, this study seeks to lay the groundwork for a complex analysis of Arab-American feminist poetics, based on both national and transnational literary approaches. The dissertation addresses the following questions: how does the genre of poetry negotiate identity politics and affiliations of belonging in the current polarized and historical moment? How do these women poets challenge the troubling oppressed/exoticised representations of Arab/Muslim women prevalent in the United States mainstream culture? How does each of these poets express their vision of social and political transformation? Emphasising the varying ethnic, religious, national, political, and cultural backgrounds and affiliations of these four poets, this dissertation attempts to defy any notion of the monolithic experience of Arab-American women, and argues for a nuanced understanding of specificity and diversity of Arab-American feminist experiences and articulations. To achieve its aim, the study depicts the historical evolution of Arab women’s poetry in the United States throughout four generations in order to examine the deriving issues and formative elements that contributed to the development of this genre, and also to pinpoint the defining characteristics marking Arab-American women poetry as a cultural production of American women of Arab descent. Through close readings and critical analyses of texts, the dissertation offers an investigation of some of the major themes and issues handled by these Arab-American women to highlight the most persistent tropes that mark this developing literary genre. Eventually, this study shows how literature, and specifically poetry becomes a conduit to investigate Arab-American cultural and sociopolitical conditions. It also offers productive explorations of identities and representations that transcend the rigid essential totalising categorisation of identity, while attempting to forge a new space for cultural translation and social transformation.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:05:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3952.pdf: 2039842 bytes, checksum: 13562902fbbd07a996facebf66d35dd7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-21 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / In this research, we describe how common sense knowledge with machine translation can help the communication among people with different cultural background. In order to evaluate this possibility, we developed a bilingual chat called Culture-to-Chat or C2C that provides a communication channel and has resources that help its user to create messages in a second language. In the computer-mediated communication field, it is possible to notice that people are crossing geographic borders and having opportunities to share experiences among different cultures. Sharing information in a non native language can be difficult to some users. Some computational tools that support communication uses machine translation to aid users that need to work with different language. C2C also uses this approach and adopts a semantic network of cultural knowledge, collaboratively built on the Web through the Open Mind Common Sense in Brazil project (OMCS-Br) to work with cultural expression, in other words, terms whose meaning depends on user‟s culture. Following a user-centered design approach that focuses on prototyping, we present the development of C2C passing by low, middle and high fidelity prototypes. In order to observe how this computational tool is used and collect the opinion of target users, we perform a pilot study involving Brazilian and Canadian users. This study showed some enhancements for the tool and pointed evidences that this chat contributes to the communication between people with different cultural backgrounds. / Neste trabalho é descrito como o conhecimento de senso comum em conjunto com a tradução automática pode apoiar a comunicação entre pessoas de diferentes culturas. Para verificar a viabilidade do senso comum foi desenvolvido um chat bilíngue chamado Culture-to-Chat ou C2C, que, além de prover um canal de comunicação, possui mecanismos que auxiliam o usuário na criação de mensagens em língua estrangeira. No campo da comunicação mediada por computador, percebe-se que as pessoas estão cruzando as fronteiras geográficas e tendo oportunidades de troca de experiências entre diferentes culturas. Para alguns usuários, essa troca de informações é feita em uma língua não nativa, o que pode ser uma tarefa difícil para eles. Algumas ferramentas computacionais que apoiam a comunicação propõem o uso de tradução automática para trabalhar com usuários falantes de diferentes línguas. O C2C, além de adotar tal estratégia, adota a rede semântica de conhecimento cultural construida colaborativamente via Web do projeto Open Mind Common Sense no Brasil (OMCS-Br) para trabalhar com expressões culturais, ou seja, termos cujo significado depende da cultura do usuário. Utilizando uma abordagem centrada no usuário focando-se em prototipação, o desenvolvimento do C2C e suas funcionalidades são apresentados por meio de protótipos de diferentes níveis de fidelidade (baixa, média e alta). Com o intuito de observar o uso dessa ferramenta computacional e coletar opiniões de usuários, foi realizado um estudo piloto envolvendo usuários brasileiros e canadenses. Tal estudo mostrou possíveis melhorias pra a ferramenta e apontou indícios de que este chat contribui na comunicação entre pessoas de diferentes culturas.

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