Traduzindo na Encruzilhada Afro-Diaspórica: Janus Adams, (São) Steve Biko, eu e nossos mistérios

Abstract

This work aims at building a bridge between the African-Brazilian and African-American realities, from an annotated translation of the dramatic text St. Stephen: a passion play, analyzing it literarily in its departure context. In addition to the language issues involved in the translation process, we try to reflect on the importance of translation as a political and interpretive act of resistance from african-diasporic people who were colonized and enslaved. Throughout the translation process, they will also be analyzed and discussed the discursive and aesthetic strategies used by the author in her dramatic text for construction or reconstruction of an identity and ethnic reference, through the concepts of traumatic memory, ancestry, post-dramatic theater and the African drama. St. Stephen: a passion play was written by the African-American writer Janus Adams and was published in the book Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women, in 1983, an anthology edited by Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka.