Feminismos traduzidos: explorando a room of one's own de virginia woolf sob a perspectiva dos estudos feministas da tradução

Abstract

This research compares three Brazilian translations of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, carried out in three different moments (1985 translated by Vera Ribeiro, 2014 translated by Bia Nunes and Glauco Mattoso, and 2022 translated by Vanessa Barbara). For this purpose, it relies on discussions common to the fields of Feminist Translation, with the emphasis on the translator's active role in their work, as postulated by Louise von Flotow; of Cultural Translation, in line with Homi Bhabha’s idea of the “in-between”; and Literary Translation, according to André Lefevere’s perspective of the translator as mediator. The aim was to observe how the feminist bias, coming from a cultural and social context of greater or lesser awareness of the cause, impacts on the translation of an author like Virginia Woolf. Thus, five excerpts from the four books were selected in order to compare translation choices made in the works in Brazilian Portuguese. The results show that the translators’ choices are intricately linked to the cultural and social debates about the role of women at the time they were published.