Contos Populares Portugueses de Massachusetts (Guilherme Alexandre da Silveira) / Portuguese Folktales from Massachusetts
Manuel da Costa Fontes
Contos Populares Portugueses de Massachusetts (Guilherme Alexandre da Silveira) / Portuguese Folktales from Massachusetts
Manuel da Costa Fontes
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Esta e a segunda de duas colecoes dedicadas ao conto popular portugues na America do Norte (Canada e Massachusetts). O presente volume, que contribui para a preservacao de uma tradicao imemorial em via de desaparecimento, e composto por 82 contos folcloricos de caracter indo-europeu gravados em Taunton, Massachusetts. A maioria (72) foi contada por Guilherme Alexandre da Silveira, um septuagenario da ilha das Flores, o qual era sem duvida um dos ultimos grandes contadores dos Acores, e talvez de toda a Europa. Os contos foram fielmente transcritos, incluindo numerosos arcaismos, regionalismos e alguns dos anglicismos que caracterizam a fala dos imigrantes. A introducao, em portugues e ingles, apresenta um panorama da imigracao portuguesa para a Nova Inglaterra. Cada conto e precedido por um resumo em ingles e classificado de acordo com o catalogo internacional de Hans-Joerg Uther. Seguem-se seccoes dedicadas ao mundo lusofono (Portugal, Brasil, Angola, Cabo Verde, Goa, Guine-Bissau, Mocambique e Timor) e a area cultural iberica (Espanha, America Latina e Sefarditas). Este livro, que tambem e de grande valor linguistico, termina com cinco apendices: vocabulario, informantes, motivos, e dois apendices dedicados aos tipos-conto. O primeiro classifica as historias aqui incluidas; o segundo reune todos os contos encontrados nas tres coleccoes norte-americanas.
This is the second of two collections dedicated to the Portuguese folktale in North America (Canada and Massachusetts). The present volume, which contributes to preserving an ancient, disappearing tradition, consists of 82 folktales of Indo-European character recorded in Taunton, Massachusetts. Most were told by Guilherme Alexandre da Silveira, a septuagenarian from the island of Flores, who was one the last surviving great storytellers from the Azores, and perhaps all of Europe. The tales were faithfully transcribed from recordings, including numerous archaisms, regionalisms, and some of the Anglicisms that characterize immigrant speech. The introduction, in Portuguese and English, presents an overview of Portuguese immigration to New England. Each tale is preceded by an English summary, and is classified according to Hans-Joerg Uther's international catalog. There follow sections dedicated to the Portuguese-speaking world (Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Goa, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Timor) and the Iberian cultural area (Spain, Latin America and the Sephardim). This book, which is of great linguistic value, ends with five appendices: vocabulary, informants, motifs, and two appendices dedicated to tale types. The first classifies the stories included here; the second brings together all the tales found in the three North American collections.
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