Transferências Culturais na Produção Literária Paraibana do Século XIX – o papel da tradução na revista Alva

Abstract

The present monograph aims to contribute to the construction of translation history studies in the Brazilian state of Paraiba by means of the case study of six editions of the literary periodic journal Alva (1850). To do so, we based in the interdisciplinary concept of Cultural Transfers developed by Michel Espagne and Michael Werner. To these academics, Cultural Transfer can be understood as a methodological orientation to historical research, which aims to highlight the imbrications and miscegenations between national spaces, meaning to understand how identity forms absorb these importations, because no national identity is pure, since they are the result of constant hybridizations (ESPAGNE, 2012, p. 21). Thus, we investigated in the foreign contributions found in the periodic journal Alva the instances of cultural mediation, as well as its contexts of origin and reception, which are not restricted to translations – although this is the focus of this paper – but also include numerous quotations in foreign languages. Therefore, this work was organized in three chapters: on Chapter 1, we situate the periodic Alva in the context of Brazilian press in the 19th century; on Chapter 2, we present the structure of Alva, highlighting how the foreign cultures helped it reach the educational goals proposed; on Chapter 3, we analyze, in three case studies, the paths taken by the translations until getting in the new cultural context of Alva.