TRANSLATING AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEO-SLAVE NARRATIVES: BLACK ENGLISH IN THE GOOD LORD BIRD AND THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.

This paper studies how two recent neo-slave narratives have been translated into Spanish: The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride, and The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. Since they were both published simultaneously in Spain in September 2017, special attention is paid to the strategies used to render Black English, which marks slaves’ otherness, in the target polysystem. An overview of the origin, rise, and evolution of neo-slave narratives precedes the features of African-American Vernacular English portrayed in the novels that belong to this sub-genre. After some insights into the issue of translating literary dialect, the risks it entails, and the different strategies that can be used, the Spanish versions of McBride’s and Whitehead’s works are analyzed accordingly and contrasted.

La traducción del dialecto en las narraciones de esclavos: el caso de "The Good Lord Bird"

Este artículo explora la posibilidad de traducir al español la tercera novela de James McBride, The Good Lord Bird, y plantea una propuesta de traducción. Con el fin de ofrecer un texto en la lengua meta que reproduzca la variación lingüística del original y sus connotaciones, se estudian las estrategias para la traducción del dialecto en literatura y sus implicaciones sociales e ideológicas, que se aplican al caso particular del Black English y las narraciones de esclavos. También se consideran las posturas de varios traductólogos al respecto de la traducción del dialecto, así como las prácticas más extendidas en las versiones en español de las novelas pertenecientes a este género.

The Racial Prejudice Toward The Black In America As Reflected In James Mcbride The Color Of Water

This thesis discusses the issue of racial prejudice in America described in the novel The Color of Water written by James Mcbride. This analysis focuses on how blacks are perceived differently by other races in America such as whites. In this study, the authors analyzed three problems, the first why race prejudice occurred in America. How racial prejudices against blacks as uneducated people, how racial prejudice against blacks as criminal. In analyzing the literary work, the author uses postcolonial theory, it is this theory that allows us to see how the colonial influence both during colonization lasted, before, and after the colonialization ended like today. This theory has a very important meaning, The hidden problems contained behind the facts that have occurred, and very in accordance with the problems contained in the novel the color of water. In this study, the authors found a 1). bad relationship between the minority and the majority in the United States really happened. 2). Minorities such as blacks get white prejudices. This disharmony of relationships has some impact on the minority itself, the impact of which can be seen from how the quality of life of these minorities. 3). Another consequence of the harmony of the relationship is the emergence of awareness and motivation in the minority to be equal to the majority.