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Der Begriff der Nationalliteratur fungiert bei Herder […] vor allem als eine Differenzkategorie, die in Frontstellung zu den Konzepten eines universalistischen Rationalismus :und einer durch ihn begründeten klassizistischen Ästhetik entworfen wird, weil in ihrem Horizont das Problem der kulturellen Differenz nicht gedacht werden kann. Herders Konzept ist daher primär zu lesen als ein solches, das nach Wegen sucht, die Frage kultureller Differenz sowohl in synchroner wie in diachroner Perspektive zu erfassen.
A tradução para a criança e para o jovem: a prática como base da reflexão e da relação profissional
(2005)
This article deals with the attempt of systematizing my experience as translator of literature written for children and young people. On the basis of some considerations about aspects shared by both, the production and the translation of this kind of literature, this article presents a number of examples taken from translations of German texts into Brazilian Portuguese. Consequences concerning the importance of concepts like interaction and creativeness in translation are then briefly discussed. A claim for a more systematic consideration of the question by Translation Studies and for a special position to be occupied by this genre of texts in the professional field is the background of the article.
This essay aims at making a survey of Kafka’s reception in Brazil. After justifying the importance of this study, I show how intermittently Kafka’s work was translated into Brazilian Portuguese in the very beginning of his reception, that is to say, 1956. The first text published in Brazil was "Die Verwandlung", which was written in German in 1915. However this text was not translated from the German, but from the English. Other texts were translated from the French. Translations from the German only appeared in 1983, among them the one with the 'short stories' "Kleine Fabel", "Der Geier", "Gibs auf!" and "Vor dem Gesetz". It is interesting to notice that essays and other articles in newspapers on Kafka and his work preceded the translations. For example, the first essay on the author was written by Otto Maria Carpeaux in August 1941 in the newspaper "Correio da Manhã". Nowadays Kafka’s work is object of considerable research in Brazil.
In this essay I want to begin with a short survey on the reception of Schiller in England and Portugal, especially in regard to the impact of the play "The Robbers" and the narrative "The Ghostseer". As a matter of fact, Schiller was not only read and translated, but he actually imprinted his mark on (the) literature outside Germany. His ideas and works made important contributions to the Romantic movement – that of Brazil, where his writings arrived through France and Portugal, but Schiller was read directly in German at least by Gonçalves Dias. Schiller's contribution to the works of Gonçalves Dias can be most clearly seen in the drama "Patkull", in which there are similarities to "Wallenstein", and in the translation of "The bride of Messina", which was unfinished when the Brazilian writer prematurely died.
Let’s not forget that 1492, one of the first landmarks of Modernity, was both the year of the conquest of the Americas and of the fall or of the Reconquista of Granada, both of inner and outer ethnic cleansing of the nation state; that the national state was a colonial state and is now a securitarian state, that colonialism was the very form of Western Modernity, that the French Revolution itself was colonial, that the leader of the first Black revolutionary independence movement, Toussaint Louverture (Haiti), died in a French prison though inspired by the French Revolution. - No-one has access to reason as whole: there is no such thing as the whole of Reason, or Reason as a whole, or the Totality of reason. Reason is patched up of disconnected bits and pieces that reside at different addresses.
Jahrhunderte lang betonte man die unhistorische Auffassung der Sprachreinheit. Den Mythos der „reinen“ Sprachen zu dekonstruieren, bedeutet, die mythische Verbindung zwischen Muttersprache und Literatur in Frage zu stellen. Vorgeschlagen wird, dem Weg vom sprachlichen Kreolismus zur literarischen Anthropophagie zu folgen. Anthropophagie ist vielleicht die bestmögliche Haltung gegenüber der Globalisierung. Anstatt Angst zu haben vor einer kulturellen Uniformierung sollten wir fremde Einflüsse aufnehmen, wissend, dass wir nachher nie wieder so sein werden wie vorher. Wir brauchen ein neues, anthropophagisches Sprachverhältnis, eines, das akzeptiert, dass alle Sprachen Kreolensprachen sind. Wer die Kreolisierung akzeptiert, verwirft jede Form der absoluten Wahrheit und betrachtet jede Ideologie als vergänglich.
Iqbal and Goethe : a note
(2005)
The recourse to Goethe plays an important role in the work of Mohammad Iqbal (1873-1938), one of the few important writers from the Indian subcontinent who knew German literature. Iqbal situates his own writing in the context of western colonial expansion and the corresponding world-historical loss of power of Islam in the East. The recourse to Goethe becomes an import reference point in his work. It enables him to stylise himself as a Messenger of the East in reply to Goethe as a representative of the West. By establishing a comparative cultural constellation with his German predecessor Iqbal affirms a cultural position consisting of a mode of historical complaint and cultural revival.
Nach dem Ende Jugoslawiens bleibt Indien der 'Testfall' dafür, daß ethnische, religiöse und sprachliche Vielfalt mit dem Konzept eines einheitlichen Staates kompatibel ist. Dies rechtfertigt Überlegungen zum Problem der Homogenität und Heterogenität im postkolonialen Umfeld und den Rückgriff auf die indische Kulturdiskussion aus der Zeit der antikolonialen Bewegung. Postkoloniales Denken wird dabei begriffen als widersprüchliches Ensemble von Haltungen zum Prozeßcharakter von Kulturen. Ihr Reflexionsfeld umfaßt plurikulturelle, multilinguale, multireligiöse und multiethnische Zusammenhänge.