A tradução do sujeito pós colonial em A Small Place de Jamaica Kincaid

Abstract

The essay A Small Place (1998) aims to show the world Jamaica Kincaid´s reflections on the process of colonization that lasted into the twentieth century. As a former colonized, Kincaid chooses to write in English, nevertheless, as not everyone speaks English, it´s necessary to translate, so that the denunciation enforces its purpose. As the essay A Small Place is constructed through an ironic discourse, sometimes sarcastic, the translation was done under the principle of plurality of meanings that texts carry, considering time, space and the cultures involved, (de)limiting the literal and figurative, in order to produce an ironic text in Portuguese devoid of comic and jocose aspects. Based on translations and literature studies, this work was grounded in the post-structuralist and post-colonialist theories to analyze the marks of irony as a vehicle of the construction of the colonized´s anger against the colonizer in the essay A Small Place (1988) Jamaica Kincaid.