Banca de DEFESA: CLARA DOS SANTOS BASTOS ROCHA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : CLARA DOS SANTOS BASTOS ROCHA
DATE: 10/02/2026
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Plataforma Teams
TITLE:

From Onça to Jaguar, From Literary Critique to Translation Critique: O som do rugido da onça in its french translation

KEY WORDS:

Literary translation; Micheliny Verunschk; narrative voice; Amerindian cosmologies; Antoine Berman; Antonio Candido

PAGES: 105
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

This dissertation investigates the relations between narrative voice, Amerindian cosmology, and literary translation based on the novel O som do rugido da onça, by Micheliny Verunschk, and its French translation Requiem pour un MODELO jaguar, by Anne Pouzargues. The research brings together Antonio Candido’s dialectical criticism and Antoine Berman’s criticism of translation, understanding the literary work as a system of formal, historical, and symbolic tensions, and translation as a space of ethical and aesthetic reconstruction. Chapter 1 examines the historical and cosmological lexicon of the onça, its zoological, mythical, and literary figurations, and the contemporary cultural displacements that traverse the sign “onça,” including its reappropriation as a fashion pattern. Chapter 2 presents the national and international critical reception of the novel, mapping the impact of the work, its process of circulation and reception in different contexts, and analyzes, in a specific subsection, the covers and titles of the foreign editions, observing how each literary system visually and linguistically reinscribes Verunschk’s narrative. Chapter 3 constitutes the core of the dissertation: it analyzes the narrative tessitura of the novel, focusing on the “jaguar voice,” its enunciative and temporal modulations, and the challenges of its recreation in the French translation, among them gender marking, the organization of verb tenses, lexical equivalence, and the inevitable softening of the Rosian register. The dissertation concludes by discussing the articulation between myth, temporality, and cosmological vengeance, highlighting how the novel and its translation fabricate worlds through language.

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Externo à Instituição - DANIEL PADILHA PACHECO DA COSTA - USP
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