País de Wano – ato final: os rastros da traédia shakespeariana Macbethno arco do país de Wano do mangá One Piece

Abstract

The research here presented is within the field of Translation Studies and comprehends, as its research objects, the tragedy Macbeth (circa 1606), that the English playwright William Shakespeare wrote, and the last arc of the manga One Piece (1997), the Wano Country arc, that the Japanese manga artist Eiichiro Oda wrote. This research aims at analyzing the ways in which the ambition for power is reconstructed from the traces of Macbeth (circa 1606) in the form of text and image in the Wano Country arc. Hence, we understand here the translation process as being a transformative process of reading and interpreting, as suggested by Marinyze Prates de Oliveira (2004). To achieve our goal, we focus at first on understanding Shakespeare’s life and what aspects of it influenced his writing for the Scottish play, based on the works of Bill Bryson (2008). Then, we analyze the construction of the ambition present in the Shakespearian tragedy, which are aligned with the observations that Barbara Heliodora (1997/2012) makes. After that, we discuss about the manga as a hybrid media containing text and image: its characteristics, history, and relevance, based on the reflections developed by Frederik L. Schodt (1983), Helen McCarthy (2014), Kinko Ito (2008), and Sonia Luyten (2012). Following this part, we present the plot of One Piece (1997) and its most recent arc, the Wano Country arc, emphasizing the unique characteristics that the arc presents. Finally, we develop our comparative analysis between both works, by using the concepts coined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, that are present in the works of Cristina Carneiro Rodrigues (2000), focusing also on analyzing the manga images, based on the considerations of Alberto Manguel (2001) and Ayda Estupiñán (2017). Key Words: Macbeth; One Piece; Trace; Intersemiotic Translation.