Tradução e o desejo queer em Maurice

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the relationship between literary translation, heteronormativity, and queer visibility through E. M. Forster’s Maurice (2005) and its Brazilian translations by Marcelo Pen and Antonio Farinaci. The aim is to investigate how lexical, stylistic, and paratextual choices may preserve, shift, or weaken the construction of homoaffective desire, subjectivity, shame, the body, and intimacy in the translated text. The research is grounded in Translation Studies, Queer Theory, Feminist Translation Studies, and the Sociology of Translation, with particular emphasis on Walter Benjamin (2008), Lawrence Venuti (1995; 2019), Judith Butler (2018), Brian Baer (2021), B. J. Epstein and Robert Gillett (2017), and Marc Démont (2023). Methodologically, it adopts a qualitative, comparative, and interpretive approach, based on a critical reading of the original text and a comparison of selected excerpts from the Brazilian translations. The analysis demonstrates that the versions of Maurice are not limited to stylistic differences, but reveal distinct ways of dealing with the queer force of the novel in Brazilian Portuguese. It concludes that translating Maurice also means disputing meanings, memory, and ways of recognizing love between men, making queer translation an ethical practice committed to the visibility of historically marginalized experiences.