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    <mods:titleInfo lang="eng">
        <mods:title>Traduzindo História e auto-tradução: 'Viva o povo brasileiro', de João Ubaldo Ribeiro</mods:title>
    </mods:titleInfo>
    <mods:titleInfo lang="por">
        <mods:title>Translating History and self-translation: João Ubaldo Ribeiro's 'Viva o povo brasileiro'</mods:title>
    </mods:titleInfo>

    <mods:name type="personal">
        <mods:namePart>Myers, Robert</mods:namePart>
        <mods:affiliation>Yale University</mods:affiliation>
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        <mods:dateIssued>1994</mods:dateIssued>
        <mods:dateIssued keyDate="yes" encoding="w3cdtf">1994-12</mods:dateIssued>
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        <mods:languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</mods:languageTerm>
    </mods:language>
    <mods:language>
        <mods:languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">por</mods:languageTerm>
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        <mods:extent>pp. 29-38</mods:extent>
        <mods:digitalOrigin>born digital</mods:digitalOrigin>
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    <mods:abstract lang="eng">A historical novel that focuses on the inhabitants of Itaparica, Bahia, from the seventeenth century to the 70s, 'Viva o Povo Brasileiro', by João Ubaldo Ribeiro, is introduced by its epigraph - "The secret of Truth is this: there are no facts, only stories "- as an archive of unofficial oral histories of Brazil that undermine the authority of official historiography. However, since João Ubaldo translated the novel into English, the two versions of Brazilian history he produced are read side by side in an attempt to show that, despite adopting a contingent theory of historical truth, his conception of translation as a literal transcription process reveals an analogous view of historiography, in which fiction is understood as a privileged means of presenting historical truth.</mods:abstract>
    <mods:abstract lang="por">Romance histórico que focaliza os habitantes de Itaparica, Bahia, do século XVII aos anos 70, ‘Viva o povo brasileiro’, de João Ubaldo Ribeiro, é introduzido por sua epígrafe - "O segredo da Verdade é o seguinte : não existem fatos, só existem histórias" - como um arquivo de histórias orais não oficiais do Brasil que solapam a autoridade da historiografia oficial. Contudo, visto que João Ubaldo traduziu o romance para o inglês, as duas versões da história brasileira que produziu são lidas lado a lado numa tentativa de mostrar que, apesar de adotar uma teoria contingencial da verdade histórica, sua concepção de tradução como processo de transcrição literal revela uma visão análoga de historiografia, na qual a ficção é entendida como meio privilegiado de apresentação da verdade histórica.</mods:abstract>

    <mods:part>
        <mods:detail type="volume">
            <mods:number>7</mods:number>
            <mods:caption>vol.</mods:caption>
        </mods:detail>
        <mods:detail type="issue">
            <mods:number>12</mods:number>
            <mods:caption>no.</mods:caption>
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            <mods:start>29</mods:start>
            <mods:end>38</mods:end>
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    <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
        <mods:topic>Brazilian fiction</mods:topic>
        <mods:temporal>20th century</mods:temporal>
    </mods:subject>
    <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
        <mods:topic>Brazilian fiction (English)</mods:topic>
        <mods:temporal>20th century</mods:temporal>
    </mods:subject>
    <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
        <mods:topic>Literature and history</mods:topic>
    </mods:subject>
    <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
        <mods:topic>Self-translation</mods:topic>
    </mods:subject>
    <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
        <mods:topic>Oral history</mods:topic>
    </mods:subject>
    <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
        <mods:topic>Microhistory</mods:topic>
    </mods:subject>
    <mods:subject authority="lcsh">
        <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Ribeiro, João Ubaldo</mods:namePart>
            <mods:namePart type="date">1941-2014</mods:namePart>
        </mods:name>
    </mods:subject>

    <mods:relatedItem type="host">
        <mods:titleInfo lang="eng">
            <mods:title>BRASIL/BRAZIL</mods:title>
            <mods:partNumber>vol. 7, no. 12</mods:partNumber>
        </mods:titleInfo>
    </mods:relatedItem>
    <mods:relatedItem type="host">
        <mods:titleInfo lang="por">
            <mods:title>BRASIL/BRAZIL</mods:title>
            <mods:partNumber>vol. 7, n.º 12</mods:partNumber>
        </mods:titleInfo>
    </mods:relatedItem>

<mods:identifier xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" type="doi">10.26300/9g3x-0j27</mods:identifier></mods:mods>