INA CÉSAIRE AND THE MARTINICAN CREOLE FOLKTALES: TRANSLATION CHALLENGES

ABSTRACT This article presents a translation project from French to Portuguese of the book Contes de nuit et de jours aux Antilles (1989) from the Martinican ethnologist and writer Ina Césaire and the reflections on the translation of these folktales. The work is the result of Césaire as an ethnologist, gathering 14 Creole oral folktales from Martinique that were transcribed from recordings done between the years of 1975 and 1988 in the island's countryside. The aim of the article is to present the author and her work and to trace a short panorama of the literary history and cultural identity in Martinique. It also aims to reflect on the orality and the Creole imagery, as they are strongly present features in the tales.摘要 本文呈现一项法译葡翻译项目，译作对象为马提尼克民族学家、作家伊娜·塞萨尔（Ina Césaire）1989年出版的《加勒比夜昼故事》（Contes de nuit et de jours aux Antilles），并附带针对该民间故事集的翻译反思。该著作源自塞萨尔的民族学研究实践，收录了14篇源自马提尼克的克里奥尔语（Creole）口头民间故事，这些故事均转录自1975年至1988年间于该岛乡村录制的音频素材。本文旨在介绍作者及其创作成果，并简要勾勒马提尼克文学史与文化身份的发展脉络；同时，鉴于口头性与克里奥尔意象是该故事集的核心鲜明特征，本文亦将围绕二者展开翻译层面的思考。