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The main aim of this study is to explore if, and if so, how Rabih Alameddine, Kim Addonizio, and Kellie Wells have managed to sustain, replicate, disregard, or redefine the patriarchal ideology customarily associated to gender issues within the fairy-tale tradition. What is really striking is that, several decades after the revisionist project undertaken by the "Angela Carter generation", these new voices experimenting with the field of fairy tales still feel the need to revisit the same mythemes and fight against the same ideology and values that pervaded twentieth century retellings of fairy tales. The subversive potential of the fairy tale retellings seems to have been surpassed by the powerful agenda of a patriarchal social system, which, despite the social, psychological and political changes, still retains its status quo.

This study aims to investigate the translation of violence, to propose and to analyse the translation strategies of English Fairytales (EFT) to the Portuguese language. The theoretical framework of this study is based on the interface of Corpus-based Translation Studies (CTS) and Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS). Klingberg (1986) purification concept adapted as translation strategies proposed by Chesterman (1997). For the alignment and corpus analysis, it is used COPA-TRAD – Parallel Corpus for translation research (Fernandes, L. & Silva, 2014). The analysis revealed that the target text had been translated under the moral and religious motivational factors of the source culture because the literature translated in Brazil still had to comply with the Portuguese requirements for translating for children (Coelho, 1987).

Esta investigación ofrecerá una reflexión sobre el uso de los cuentos de hadas como fuente para el historiador, mostrando de esa forma la aproximación que tiene el cuento de la Bella y la Bestia, con los conceptos de la belleza/fealdad y la civilización/barbarie. Así, el análisis se basará, en la relación que tienen las adaptaciones cinematográficas con dicho cuento; también, podemos observar aquella dicotomía con el lenguaje cinematográfico, donde Bella un personaje civilizador, intenta domar a aquel monstruo (La Bestia). No obstante, se tomará como base el cuento escrito por Jeanne- Marie LePrince de Beaumont, para mirar cuáles son las características de estas dos dualidades antes mencionadas y, de esa manera, analizar en las adaptaciones cinematográficas que se realizaron en Estados Unidos entre 1960 hasta el 1991, las transformaciones que ha tenido esta historia, para comprender la forma en que la sociedad destaca, en las representaciones de los personajes, las virtudes o los defectos. This research offers a reflection on the use of fairy tales as a source for historians, showing thus the approach to the tale of Beauty and the Beast with the concepts of beauty/ugliness and civilization/barbarism. Thus, the analysis is based on the relation between the cinematographic adaptations and the original tale. It also presents the cinematographic language dichotomy in which Beauty, a civilized character, tries to tame the monster (Beast). The study is based on the tale written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and it is focused on identifying the characteristics of the aforementioned dualities. After identifying the characteristics, the article presents an analysis of the transformations suffered by the story in the cinematographic adaptations produced in the United States between 1960 and 1991 in order to understand the way in which the society highlights the virtues or the defects in the representations of the characters. This research offers a reflection on the use of fairy tales as a source for historians, showing thus the approach to the tale of Beauty and the Beast with the concepts of beauty/ugliness and civilization/barbarism. Thus, the analysis is based on the relation between the cinematographic adaptations and the original tale. It also presents the cinematographic language dichotomy in which Beauty, a civilized character, tries to tame the monster (Beast). The study is based on the tale written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and it is focused on identifying the characteristics of the aforementioned dualities. After identifying the characteristics, the article presents an analysis of the transformations suffered by the story in the cinematographic adaptations produced in the United States between 1960 and 1991 in order to understand the way in which the society highlights the virtues or the defects in the representations of the characters.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, different Brazilian publishing houses have released Charles Perrault’s Stories or Tales of Olden Days with Morals in editions which present rewritings of the 17th century French author’s tales done by translators and adaptors of great prestige in the translation area or in children’s literature: Mário Laranjeira (Iluminuras, 2007), Maria Luiza Borges (Zahar, 2010), Ivone Benedetti (L&PM, 2012), Rosa Freire d’Aguiar (Companhia das Letrinhas, 2012), Katia Canton (DCL, 2005) and Walcyr Carrasco (Manole, 2009; Moderna, 2013). Besides promoting a rediscovery of the author by the Brazilian reading public, these rewritings – translations and adaptations – also help to promote and value his work, with editions that contain paratexts commenting on Perrault’s life and work as well as on the work done by the translator or adaptor. Considering the visibility of the translator/adaptor’s work provided by the paratexts that accompany the rewritings, this article discusses how a new publishing project is able to resignify a rewriting, in this case, Walcyr Carrasco's adaptation of Perrault’s tales, first launched by Manole (2009) and now in a new edition published by Moderna (2013), with a preface written by Regina Zilberman.

The fairy tales with their literary form, given by Charles Perrault in 17th century, have become with the passing of time a part of collective patrimony. No wonder many writers have been making use of this source in order to create their versions of Perrault’s stories. The most interesting fairy tales seem to be those which rewrite Bluebeard. One of them is Amélie Nothomb’s novel, published in 2012 and supporting the same title, in which readers can find a realisation of the phenomenon called by G. Genette a “pragmatic transposition” (“transposition pragmatique”).

According to scholars, Grimm’s Kinder- und Hausmärchen seems to have promoted patriarchal bourgeois values as part of the socialization process in the nineteenth century, modelling children’s gender identity and behaviour over time. Taking into account, under the hegemonic representations of gender, that female identity becomes associated with a set of values and behaviours, we intend to analyse comparatively portrayals of Grimm’s and contemporary Portuguese children’s literature princesses. Our aim is to find out in what ways those princesses’ images of the twenty-first century are substantially different from those conveyed by Grimm's fairy tales, analysing their emancipatory potential. Finally, we wish to apprehend which ideologies underpin those portrayals and to verify if they effectively lead to a new world vision by depicting women as real free human beings.

Resumen: En este trabajo presentamos un análisis de las principales colecciones de cuentos populares de Portugal y España y de las características de los movimientos de recolección, clasificación y estudio de las producciones. Presentamos igualmente los antecedentes teóricos que sustentan las actividades de los folcloristas hispanolusos agrupados en las Sociedades del Folklore de finales del siglo XIX, cuyos objetivos y metodología se consideran junto a sus contribuciones fundamentales. También se muestra el grado de fidelidad etnográfica en las versiones de los distintos recolectores de cuentos, así como las características generales de las colecciones. Nos ocupamos asimismo de ofrecer algunas versiones de cuentos de amplia difusión en la península ibérica y procedemos al trabajo comparativo de los cuentos de Portugal y España. Finalmente, y dada nuestra pertenencia a un Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura, reflexionamos sobre las posibilidades que ofrecen los cuentos populares hispanolusos para ser utilizados en los contextos educativos.Abstract: The current essay shows an analysis of the main fairy tales’ collections from Portugal and Spain, as well as it analyses the characteristics of the movements of collection, classification and study of the literary works. We also show the theoretical backgrounds that maintain the activities of the Spanish-portuguese folklorists assembled in the Folklore Societies of the end of the nineteenth century, whose objectives and methodology are analysed together with their main contributions. It is also shown the ethnographical fidelity degree in the several tales collectors’ versions, as well as the collections’ main features. We also deal with providing several tales’ versions of a wide spreading in the Iberian Peninsula and we go through the comparison between the tales from Portugal and Spain. Finally, and due to our belonging to the Department of Didactics of Language and Literature, there is a reflection on the possibilities that the Spanish-portuguese fairy tales have concerning their use in the educational situations.

Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has been the focus of many linguists who have studied the process through varied perspectives, (e.g. Ellis, 1997; Lantolf, 2000; Gardner, 1968, to quote but a few) so that they may be able to interpret the way learners gather information regarding a second language process. However, such foci have been limited to cognitive processes and other factors (e.g. cultural, socio-cognitive) rather than placed on the learners' experiences themselves. In view of this, this paper investigates learners' experiences through the analysis of a group of self narratives recorded by the AMFALE (Aprendendo com memórias de falantes e de aprendizes de língua estrangeira)² project, while, at the same time, analyzes such autobiographies in the light of Leppänen and Kalaja's (2002) work on autobiographies as learners' identities constructions, based on Vladimir Propp's book Morphology of the Folktale (2000). The study is divided in two parts: the first one briefly reviews the process of identity construction and the importance of autobiographies as a means of expression of the self. Besides, it also focuses on the criteria set forth by Leppänen and Kalaja (2002) for the analysis of autobiographies, based on Vladimir Propp's book Morphology of the folktale (2000). The second part focuses on the analyses of AMFALE autobiographies as stated above.A Aquisição de uma Segunda Língua (ASL) tem sido enfocada por vários pesquisadores que estudaram o processo sob diversas perspectivas (ex.: Ellis, 1997; Lantolf, 2000; Gardner, 1968), para poderem interpretar como os aprendizes adquirem a L2. Entretanto, esses estudos têm se limitado aos processos cognitivos e a outros fatores (cultural e sócio-cognitivo, por exemplo), em vez de focalizar as experiências dos aprendizes. Em virtude disso, este estudo investiga as experiências de aprendizes por meio de um grupo de auto-narrativas registradas pelo Projeto AMFALE (Aprendendo com memórias de falantes e de aprendizes de línguas estrangeiras), tendo como suporte básico o trabalho desenvolvido por Leppänen e Kalaja (2002), no qual as autoras, com base na teoria de Vladimir Propp sobre a morfologia do conto de fadas (2000), investigam o processo de aprendizagem de L2 a partir de auto-narrativas que refletem o processo heróico, ainda que árduo, dos contos de fadas, detalhado por Propp. Para tanto, o artigo se divide em duas partes. A primeira faz uma breve revisão do processo de construção de identidade, da importância da narrativa autobiográfica como expressão de identidade, chegando, por fim, aos critérios de análise de autobiografias no processo de aprendizagem de L2, identificados por Leppänen e Kalaja (2002). A segunda parte do estudo analisa alguns exemplos de autobiografias do projeto AMFALE sob a luz das referidas teorias.

Este artigo refere-se a um estudo inicial dos processos discursivos da língua brasileira de sinais (LIBRAS), no gênero contos de fadas, à luz da teoria enunciativa de Bakhtin. As análises realizadas, embora iniciais, apontaram alguns aspectos discursivos relevantes sobre a LIBRAS, principalmente no que se refere à dinâmica interdiscursiva que a constitui, ou seja, à compreensão de como as diferentes vozes presentes nos textos são construídas, como elas se diferenciam quanto aos aspectos composicionais, como assimilam o discurso do outro e como se inter-relacionam entre si e com o todo textual para o tratamento do tema.This article refers to an initial study of the discoursive processes of the Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) in the fairy tales genre under the light of the enunciative theory of Bakhtin. Current analysis data, although in its early stages, pointed out some relevant discoursive aspects about LIBRAS, mainly those related to the constitution of its interdiscursive dynamic. It refers to the understanding of how the different voices present in the text are built, how they differ in their compositional aspects, how they assimilate the discourse of other, and how they interrelate to each other and to the full context regarding the approach of the theme.

A proposta deste artigo é uma reflexão sobre o tratamento dado à oralidade na educação infantil. Tomou-se, como referência, a forma como os contos de fadas são apresentados aos alunos, pêlos professores. Foi analisada a abordagem dada pelo Referencial Curricular para Educação Infantil (1998) à linguagem oral e escrita, bem como trechos de entrevistas realizadas com professores de educação infantil, em uma cidade do interior paulista, como parte de uma pesquisa que resultou na dissertação de Mestrado da autora. Como resultados, percebemos que a escola, em sua função alfabetizadora e por acreditar que as crianças provêm de um meio sócio-cultural desfavorecido, valoriza a linguagem escrita e despreza a oralidade, que perde sua função auxiliar na construção simbólica da criança, o que facilitaria o próprio processo de alfabetização.The aim of this paper is a reflection on the treatment given to orality in infant education. One takes as a reference the way fairy tales are presented to the students by the teachers. The approach given by the Standard Curriculum for Infant Education (1998) was analyzed in relation to oral and written language. Parts of interviews concerning the acquisition of literacy, made with infant education teachers in a city of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and which were part of the research that resulted in the author’s MA dissertation, were also analyzed. The results of this research show that the school, believing that the children come from an unfavorable social-cultural environment, gives more weight to the written language to the detriment of oral language when teaching how to read. By being played down, orality loses its auxiliary function in the child’s symbolic construction which could help in the acquisition of literacy.