Literatura nacional, literatura traduzida e memória: as escritoras francesas do século XVIII esquecidas pela história literária canônica

Abstract

In this article, I intend to address the complex question of the process of aesthetic-literary canonization, based on the traditional concept of literary history, with the purpose, throughout my reflection, of elaborating a new concept on the literary history in force, a concept that would escape, perhaps, from the rigidity of the existing literary canon. The task here requires a change of view and vision of the world map of literatures, making use of José Lambert’s term, in search of intellectual autonomy, freedom of choice, reading and critical thinking. The initial problem consists mainly in knowing which elements contribute to the canonization, the decanonization or the recontextualization of the literary works, specifically of the female French writers of the century of the Lights, of the French Revolution. My contribution, therefore, concerns the critical fortune of texts of classic female French writers of the eighteenth century in Brazil made invisible by the literary-cultural legacy of the French system. It is not only a question of reshaping the canon of French literary works of the eighteenth century in France and Brazil, but also of analysing the literary translation and its process.