A REPRESENTAÇÃO DAS PERSONAGENS FEMININAS EM CONTOS DE FADAS DE JOSEPH JACOBS E EM SUAS TRADUÇÕES PARA O PORTUGUÊS

Abstract

The present monograph aims at analyzing the way female participants are represented in social practices as described in Celtic fairy tales, by Joseph Jacobs, and its translations into Portuguese. The social actors’ representation system developed by Theo van Leeuwen (1996) was used to analyse the original short stories "Connla and the Fairy Maiden", "Gold-Tree and Silver Tree" and "Fair, Brown and Trembling" and their respective translation from the book Princesas and Damas Encantadas (2011) The subcategories of Personalization and Impersonalization were used to categorize all references to female Participants, observing the frequency of use in each tale and its translation. It was found that both, original texts as well as in its translations, used Nomination, Functionalization, Relational Identification and Instrumentalization processes to refer to the female characters. These forms of representation, at first analysis, place women in a prominent role, since they have a single identification (Nomination) or for the reason that they play a role in society (Functionalization), however, a detailed study revealed the domestic role played by these Participants, especially when associated to representations of kinship identifications (Relational Identification).