Osmosemiotic translations: listen to German, speaking English and drawing in Portuguese

Authors

  • Paula Mastroberti Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Instituto de Artes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.v27i0p39-49

Keywords:

Comics, fairy tales, intersemiotic translation, german culture

Abstract

This essay elaborates, based on Michel Foucault, Nicolas Bourriaud and the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, among others, some reflections on my experience as a Brazilian author invited by the Goethe Institut to produce a comic book that somehow reflected the experience of having resided for 30 days in Berlin. The resulting narrative, whose title I made sure to keep in German, Zwei Rosen in Berlin, seeks precisely not only to express the language intersection between Portuguese, English and German (the languages of which I made use there), but also the development of the imaginary I have experienced.Thus, the well-known Grimm tale Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot, or White Rose and Red Rose, acquires other hues when rendered into the language of comics and having the German city as its setting.

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Author Biography

  • Paula Mastroberti, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Instituto de Artes

    É Bacharel em Artes Plásticas pela UFRGS e Doutora em Letras pela PUCRS. É, além de artista gráfica e escritora, professora do Instituto de Artes da UFRGS. São seus temas de pesquisa: artes gráficas (ilustração, quadrinhos e animações), artes, literatura e educação, artes, literatura e tecnologias e cultura midiática. Entre seus trabalhos mais recentes destacam-se: Peter Pan na Cultura das Mídias (2015) e Bowing — exposição de quadrinhos em homenagem a David Bowie (2016). Contato: pmastroberti@gmail.com. Site da autora: www.mastroberti.art.br

Published

2016-10-04

How to Cite

Mastroberti, P. (2016). Osmosemiotic translations: listen to German, speaking English and drawing in Portuguese. TradTerm, 27, 39-49. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.v27i0p39-49