Dramaturgia e poéticas de revisão: tradução comentada de Topdog/Underdog de Suzan-Lori Parks

Abstract

Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the U.S. most recognized playwrights of the current generation. In this work, we analyze the trajectory of the author and her poetic, trace relationships between their texts and reflect on the phenomenon of translation as a form of art and on literary translator as a kind of artist. Based on the theory of authors like Antoine Berman (2013) - "translation and the letter" e Pavis (2008), "the translator as playwright" this work also presents an analysis of our own translation of Parks‘s play Topdog / Underdog - the author‘s work of greater impact, with which she won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. We also propose dialogue with other translations of the play, its performances and paratextual or intertextual elements such as posters, covers of publications, gambling or cultural artifacts from both source culture and target culture that serve as mediators for our translation process.