Os irmãos Grimm e Chimamanda Adichie: literatura, ensino de línguas e tradução sob uma perspectiva desconstrutivista

Abstract

This doctoral dissertation combines the fields of Linguistics and Literature, working both with teaching and learning English as an additional language and with literature in English. Its main goal is to investigate the use of literature in English language classes, analyze the two stories used and translate one of them. It seeks to bring Linguistic Studies/Literary Studies closer together through Translation and to value interdisciplinarity. Uniting the teaching and learning of an additional language to this literature is a theory that also tries to overcome limits: Derridean deconstructivism. These three pillars support this work: English as an additional language teaching and learning, the literature in additional languages and the translation process. In the first chapter, the literary analysis of two short stories that are part of the literature in English is developed. The first short story, Snow-white and Rose-red, is a fairy tale, and the second, the Time story, is a contemporary tale by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie. Chapter two deals with the applied part of the research, analyzing data from the groups of students who read and discussed the stories during the first semester of 2021 and 2022. The third chapter deals with Translation, literary Translation and presents a translation of Adichie’s short story. Thus, this doctoral dissertation, based on Candido (2001), Eagleton (2003), Eco (2003), and also on Celani (1992), Moita Lopes (1996), and Simpson (2011), is permeated by Derridian deconstruction, mainly what is discussed in Derrida (2006) and Derrida (2014). The results from the research with the students show that they value reading literary texts and recognize its benefits, such as increased vocabulary and contact with different cultures. In addition, the results indicate that students are open to working with literary texts on levels prior to English VIII.