The Angus Saga: How Do Fluidization of Knowledge, Hyper media Translation and Defiction Combine for a Fictional World of the MacLachlan Clan?

Abstract

O primeiro guerreiro, the initial volume of Orlando Pães Filho’s A saga de Angus (The Angus Saga), was published in Brazil in 2003, appearing in different products of new media ever since. I plan to use the concepts of “fluidization of knowledge” and “hypermedia translation” for explaining the convergence of Literature and the Internet; and the occurrence of “defiction” both in the passage of Literature to virtual environments, and in the saga’s popular reference to historical archives. I attempt to shed light on: i) the “multi talent requirements” implied in a literary fact “translated” to the new media and into English for the explicit purpose of popularising the consuming audience and consequently the scope of literary critics and translation scholars; ii) “digital nomadism” as characterises Pães Filho, his readers, literary critics and translation scholars, all of them dealing with products “in transit” from History to Literature, and English-dominated virtual environments; iii) the dynamics of “literary memory effects” in the framework of Literature, popular (Mass) Media and Translation Studies.