A study of oral tradition based on the tale Cinderella

Abstract

The present study seeks to demonstrate the way in which oral narratives have remained over time, adapting to the contemporary context, thus establishing a relationship of tradition and rupture. To achieve this, the following objectives are specified: identifying, through oral narratives, how tradition is maintained over time and how ruptures give continuity to narratives within a new and current historical context; and, finally, present how variations allow these narratives to become fixed in the collective memory. To this end, qualitative bibliographical research was carried out, through which the short story “Cinderella” was selected in the version by Charles Perrault (1697), a written version by the Brothers Grimm (1812) and two oral versions narrated by Lélia Dantas (Costa, 1998) and Sônia Pinto (Costa, 2009). After carrying out a literary analysis of the selected variants, using the comparative method, the differences and similarities between these works were perceived, in addition to identifying the meaning of the female functions (Mendes, 2000) presented in these versions. As theoretical support, texts from authors such as: Alcoforado (2007), Bâ (2010), Burke (1992), Costa (2015), Fernandes (2003), Silva (2011), Zumthor (1997), among others, were used.