A tradução e a retradução do gótico americano em The Haunting of Hill House, de Shirley Jackson.

Abstract

The present study proposes a comparative analysis of the translation and retranslation of the American Gothic elements in the book The Haunting of Hill House, written by North-American author Shirley Jackson, utilizing the technical translation procedures described by Barbosa (1990) in her book Procedimentos técnicos de tradução: uma nova proposta. To this end, we first conceptualized and defined the American Gothic, linking it to the elements present in the book. Later, since the first translation, done by Edna Jansen de Mello, was published in 1983, and the retranslation, done by Débora Landsberg, was published years later, in 2021, the study also drew upon the ideas of retranslation outlined by Berman (2017), Gambier (2020), and Faleiros and Mattos (2014). The findings revealed that the translation procedure most frequently used was literal translation, followed by omission versus explicitation and transposition. Eventually, it was concluded that a first translation is not always necessarily more prone to naturalization, and that the reasons for retranslation vary; furthermore, it was concluded that literary translation, since based on texts that allow for diverse readings and interpretations, is a personal and creative activity. Thus, the focus was on the autonomy and freedom exercised by both translators and on the differences between their translation choices.