Bô sukuta! Kada kin ku su manera: as junbai tradicionais africanas recriadas na literatura infantojuvenil brasileira, eué!

Abstract

To present the panel of African folktales in oral tradition, retold by Brazilian authors, specifically for juvenile readers, the present work analyzes the functions and characteristics of the African oral folktales teller, usually known as griô, in order to outline its spectacular characteristics of performance; until recognize, finally, the geographical areas of attachment of different ethnicities of black slaves in Brazil and the territories from which the stories got spread to the rest of the country. Considering the contribution of folklorists as the first attempt to organize an anthology of African folktales in Brazil, we finally got the point of the migration of this legacy for children s and youth literature, through the works of authors that initiated new steps to the establishment of the African folktales in Brazil. Joel Rufino dos Santos, Rogério Andrade Barbosa and Reginaldo Prandi have dealt with their own specific method, and in distinct historical moments. The present work also investigates the rising of a specific popular stories category, named as recount, arising from the multicultural register and resulting of the narrative transculturation process; and proposes the reading of these authors works, taking the notion of fear as the central subject and questioning the existence of an Afro-Brazilian poetic all these essential elements to expand the horizons of the young reader.