ESTRANGEMENT AS TRANSLATION STRATEGY: CATEGORIZATION OF ESTRANGEMENT IN PAULO LEMINSKI’S POEMS AND ITS RE-CREATION IN CHINESE

Abstract

Paulo Leminski is considered avant-garde who continues to exert a strong influence on the new generations of Brazilian poets. In this article, we discuss the estrangement in Leminski’s poems and its re-creation in Chinese translation. After discussing the connotation of estrangement in the literary translation context, we develop an unprecedented categorization of estrangement consisting of six categories and present our definition of criteria for the categories as well as the estrangement re-creation process exemplified by translated poems from Portuguese to Chinese. We believe that serving as a guiding strategy for poetry translation, a proper categorization can help with the re-creation of estrangement. The next step for research into the re-creation of estrangement will consist, as we see, of studies and/or translations applying the categorization in other literary works and improving the categorization itself.

Keywords
Estrangement; Categorization; Poetry Translation; Paulo Leminski