The circulation of Brazilian literature in the United States: the case of the Tagus Press Brazilian literature in translation series

Abstract

Articles published in several online journals and magazines reveal the first years of the 21st century as a period of special importance for Brazilian literature in English translation, in the United States, in particular. It also seems to us that the scenario of constant complaints caused by the few translations of Brazilian literature published in English began to undergo significant change in the first seventeen years of this century. In this article, we aim at enriching our understanding of the circulation of Brazilian literature in the Anglophone world in the early years of this century. To do so, we will take the ideas of two important translation scholars, André Lefevere and Johan Heilbron, to examine the case of the Brazilian Literature in Translation Series published by Tagus Press between 2013 and 2014 in the United States.