Las intervenciones del sujeto traductor en la Gaceta de Caracas (1808-1822)
The Spanish-American colonial press played a significant role in the spread of foreign ideas in the American colonies. This press became the speaker of certain ideologies, which have been strengthened through the translation of news coming mainly from Europe and the United States. Our thesis studies the translator interventions in the Gaceta de Caracas (GdC). Published from 1808 to 1822, this periodical is the most emblematic of the Venezuelan emancipation period. Established to disseminate pro-monarchy news and ideas in the Venezuelan province, the GdC exceeds its primary objectives and witness the political, economic and social changes during the process of independence of the country which, in fourteen years, has successively royalists and republican periods. Like other periodical of the Province, the GdC brings up an important translational activity by the use of foreign sources (periodicals published in Europe, the United States and the Caribbean). Translation in the GdC is part of a political project, and translators do not hesitate to use it to communicate their ideologies. However, the translation serves two distinct projects depending on the political stage of the country: during the royalist period, it seeks to maintain the power of the Spanish monarchy in the colony, while during the patriotic period, it seeks emancipation. Previous studies show that the translator of the GdC employs a strategy of appropriation for political reasons and intervene in the translation process (Bastin, Navarro & Iturriza, 2010; Iturriza, 2011; Navarro, 2008, 2010, 2011). Within the approach of Descriptive Translation Studies - DTS (Toury, 1995), we study the translational editors’ choices. We examine specifically the reasons, the manifestations and the effects of these choices to determine the role of translation in the independence process in Venezuela.
Venezuela Gaceta de Caracas Colonial press Translation History