O Guarani de José de Alencar na Argentina: mediação, tradução e circulação

• Ano de defesa: 2023
• Autor(a) principal: Ramalho, Yane de Andrade
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil; UFRN; PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ESTUDOS DA LINGUAGEM
• Palavras-chave em Português: El Guaraní; Transferências culturais; José de Alencar; Arturo Costa Álvarez; Biblioteca de la Nación; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/58196

The theme of this research is the presence of José de Alencar in the foreign cultural memory of Argentine literature from the 19th and early 20th centuries, a crucial phase in the formation of Argentine cultural and literary identity. Based on the Argentine translation of his Indianist novel O Guarani in 1910, accomplished by the linguist, journalist, and Argentine translator Arturo Costa Álvarez (1870-1929) and published by the Biblioteca de la Nación, the focus shifts to the context of intellectual and symbolic exchanges between Brazil and Argentina, also involving France, through a network of contacts formed by cultural agents (translators, writers, and diplomats), institutions (La Nación publisher and newspaper), and the literary criticism of both Argentine and Brazilian contexts of the time. Its main objective is a case study of the processes of cultural transfers between Brazil and Argentina, focusing on the dynamics of mediation, translation, and circulation of this novel. Therefore, it is a bibliographic, descriptive, and analytical study, considering both contextual and (para)textual aspects. The corpus of analysis includes the novel El Guaraní (1910), archives from the newspaper La Nación, the speeches of the diplomat Oliveira Lima (2012), and the letters of the writer Aluísio Azevedo (1938). From a theoretical-methodological standpoint, this work adopts the approach of cultural transfers (Espagne, 2012, 2017; Rodrigues, 2010) and the sociology of translation (Casanova, 2002a, 2002b); Bourdieu, 2003, 2004; Heilbron, Sapiro, 2009), taking into account both (para)textual analysis and the analysis of specific cultural elements, as proposed by Franco Aixelá (2013) and the theory of Venuti (2002; 2021). In this context, and in relation to the proposed objective and the analyses carried out, the following stand out: the network of contacts of the diplomat, journalist and writer Aluísio Azevedo, who acted as financier of several translations, including that of José de Alencar's novel O Guarani; the profile of the translator Arturo Costa Álvarez, who, based on the analysis of his translation strategies, resulted in a conservative line (Franco Aixelá, 2013) and a foreignizing tendency (Venuti, 2002), providing, in a way, the translator's visibility in the work, allowing the novel El Guaraní (1910) to circulate in different spaces and times. Furthermore, an analysis of the publications of this novel in Spanish during the 20th century resulted in a strong circulation of this 1910 Argentine translation in the Latin American world, with a reprint in Argentina in 1946, a publication in Cuba in 1983, an edition in Spain in 1984 and another edition in Mexico in 1992. Except for the Spanish edition, none of the other publications mention the Argentine translator. In this way, this research contributes to a visualization and appreciation of Arturo Costa Álvarez's translation activities and reveals that the case of the Argentine translation El Guaraní (1910) is a key example of the dynamics of cultural transfers on the south-north axis and the south-south axis of circulation of cultural goods.