Le Simplegadi

Il rapporto tra oralità e scrittura in Africa ha generato dibattiti di ampia portata. Tuttavia, in questa vasta letteratura non esistono studi significativi sulla transizione dai palchi della slam poetry ai libri stampati. Analizzando i problemi inerenti al processo di traduzione delle performance orali in testi scritti, Scheub (2021) sostiene che i traduttori devono riconcettualizzare le opere originali, creando opere completamente nuove: devono cioè riformularle. Sulla base di questo principio teorico, questo articolo esamina l’evoluzione di Busisiwe Mahlangu da campionessa di slam poetry a poeta della carta stampata, analizzando la sua opera d’esordio Surviving Loss

DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-229

Parole chiave: Slam poetry, orality, scriptotherapy, Busisiwe Mahlangu, Surviving Loss.

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