Os cantos dos Aedos em novas sensorialidades e “O direito à literatura”: uma adaptação da Odisseia para leitura de alunos surdos

Abstract

This work exposes some of the difficulties presented by deaf students of the Letras: Libras Course at the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) in Goiânia, Brazil, when reading literary and theoretical texts in disciplines related to Literary Studies. It defends the importance of Literature for the training of these students, and presents the actions that preceded the adaptation of Homer’s poem, Odyssey, to be narrated, recorded in audio, and interpreted in Libras, aiming at the production of a series of interprograms for TV UFG. The main goal of this project of adaption of the Odyssey to Portuguese and its subsequent translation into Libras, was to assist the deaf students who attend the Letras: Libras course at the UFG, and to offer them, in their natural language, one of the founding texts of Western culture.