Bissau em tradução: percalços e desafios de uma pesquisa em andamento

Fassi traduson na Bissau: canseras e dificuldades na fassi es tarbadju

Abstract

The present article is a thirteen-month extract of a research developed in Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau, located in West Africa, about translation zone (SIMON, 2013) and translation space (CRONIN; SIMON 2014) in transnational contexts. Based on the search for understanding the effects caused by translation practices in multilingual, multicultural, multiethnic and multireligious contexts, this text presents the translation spaces of Bissau from the perspective of the history of cultural translation with a decolonial bias. The theoretical approach to cultural translation is developed from the perspectives of Simon (2008) and Pym (2017), highlighting the conceptual basis of cultural translation by Bhabha (2014). Regarding the methodology, the research conciliates different procedures of data generation and collection aligned with oral history, taking as a space-time cutout the space of translation and the place of memory of the "National Heroes' Square", located in the central region of the capital, in the period from February 2021 to March 2022. About the methodology in oral history, I dialogued with the perspectives of Meihy (2011), Freitas (2006), Meihy and Ribeiro (2011) and Seawrigt (2017) in order to weave resources necessary to define the types of interviews and the stages of the interviews to be fulfilled. With the fieldwork, I present some interview clippings provided by our research collaborators, aiming to describe how the concept of cultural translation only makes sense when cultural differences and multiple processes of negotiations are discussed. In conclusion, I present the main mishaps and challenges encountered during the implementation of the research in Bissau, the cross-cultural capital of West Africa.