Oral tradition and technology: two faces of the literature of Manu Maltez in my Uncle Lobisomem

Abstract

The article examines the scope of the oral tradition in contemporary when traces a reading of the book Meu tio lobisomem, by Manu Maltez. The reading is carried out from the point of view of the deployment of the oral tradition in children’s literature and how this confluence is supported and benefited with digital medias. The first field of analysis discusses the textual and cultural dialogue between the youth literature and tales of oral tradition. The second point deals with the digital version of the book, published simultaneously with the paper version, which sets the question of the gains and losses from one media to another and how each contributes to the representation of the passage from childhood to adolescence in the webs of tradition and technology.