Narrativas populares: enredando as (muitas) versões dos diferentes contos no C.E. Gonçalves Dias em Caxias-MA

Abstract

This bibliographical and investigative work has as its research object folktales and their different versions. As an oral genre, folktales are traditional narratives that have populated the collective human imagination since primitive civilizations to contemporary ones and convey knowledge, beliefs, norms and values ​​of our society. Therefore, throughout this monograph, theoretically based on Cascudo (1978; 2000), Góes (1984), Coelho (2000; 2012), among others, the historical and literary aspects of this oral genre are discussed, with regard to its origin, concepts, characteristics and relationship with children's and young adult literature. This article discusses an experience report from the Gonçalves Dias Teaching Center, concerning the use of folk tales in reading and textual production workshops for narratives among students at the aforementioned educational institution, and presents the results of the collection of folk tales in the Cohab and Vila Lobão neighborhoods of the city of Caxias-MA. Furthermore, a comparative analysis is made between the tales collected in the Caxias community and those from other sources of oral literature, and the main themes in the oral narratives of the storytellers studied are listed