Angelina Neves e a Coleção de Histórias Tradicionais:

de coelhos, hienas e macacos

Abstract

This article seeks to make the production for childhood of the Mozambican writer Angelina Neves, started in the early 1990s, particularly the titles O Coelho e hyena and O Coelho e Monkey adapted and illustrated by her, which are part of the Collection “Traditional Stories of the Language Groups of Cabo Delgado”, a province in the north of Mozambique. The collection is organized for the purpose of translating stories collected in Emakhuwa, Kimwani or Shimakonde into Portuguese and vice versa and was funded by the European Commission in the period 2010-2012. The analyzed works have as characteristic the retelling as valorization of the oral narratives when transposing them to the writing system of the Portuguese Language, on the other hand, the fable of the animals that gains life and voice in the characters of the rabbit, the hyena and the monkey vivify the values ​​to be (re) configured by the readers. Certainly, systematizing in writing the narratives common to children through orality contributes to the maintenance of culture.