Tale
Contes créoles de Guinée-Bissau
Not translated into English
Emilio Giusti · 1981
Synopsis
The collection brings together twenty tales in Creole, ten from the Casamance region, in the south of Senegal, and ten from Bissau, with their French translation. The transcriber says he left out recent borrowings from Portuguese. It includes “Storia di kamalion ku santchu”, in a tradition in which the hyena and the hare are the most frequent characters.
Context
Published in 1981, the book belongs to the series of bilingual tales of the Conseil international de la langue française. Hildo Honório do Couto notes in 2009 that the nineteen tales published later by the Nimba publishing house coincide almost entirely with Giusti's, in a Creole closer to Portuguese, and that these narratives were most often transcribed by foreigners.
Who it is for
For reading in a bilingual version the Creole oral tradition of both sides of the Guinean-Senegalese border.
Prizes and reception
No review has been found; the Brasília linguist cites it as the source of a later edition.