Sobre os seios que jorram os rios negros: tradução negra em Death and The King’s Horseman

Abstract

In this work, as from the research group Traduzindo no Atlântico Negro, I discuss political issues in the field of Translation Studies in order to think about aspects of black culture as a form of epistemological production in this space. Bringing up the perspective of Tradução de Encruzilhada (Crossroad Translation) (REIS, 2016), I draw an Afro-centered translation project that constitutes the theoretical-methodological basis for my first draft of translation of the play Death and the King's Horseman, written by the Nigerian intellectual Wole Ṣoyinka. In this course, I also dedicate myself, starting from the historical tracing of Nigeria, to discuss the construction of the Yoruba identity of the aforementioned author, focusing on the relevance of this to understand some constitutive aspects of African diaspora culture, mainly culture of Bahia.