Natya Shastra: um projeto de tradução
Natya Shastra: A Translation Project

Author(s): Janine Pimentel
Subject(s): Language studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Natya Shastra; indirect translation; drama and performance; Hindu culture; translation pedagogy
Summary/Abstract: Natyasastra is an ancient text, originally written in Sanskrit, about theatre, performance and classic drama in India. It was translated into English in the second half of the 20th century and into Spanish in 2013. Because professors and students at the School of Dance of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro need to study Natyasastra they have asked professors and students of the Language Department to translate it into Brazilian Portuguese. When the project began, the translation professor and coordinator soon realized that this was not only about producinga translation but also about teaching future translators. Therefore, this paper addresses the theoretical and methodological issues raised so far in the translation/pedagogical project. For example, the English edition, on which the Brazilian translation is based, corresponds to an English translation from Sanskrit published by Adya Rangacharya in 1984, which means that the Brazilian students are producing an indirect translation (a concept discussed in Dollerup 2000, Washbourne 2013, Rosa et al. 2017). From the pedagogical viewpoint, the project’s workflow is based on the approach called “project-based learning” which has been successfully applied to the translation classroom (Kiraly 2005, Galán-Mañas 2013).

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