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Orality and Literacy
Reflections Across Disciplines
Keith Thor Carlson (Edited by), Kristina Fagan (Edited by), Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (Edited by)
9781487527686
Paperback / softback, published 13 October 2020
344 pages
22.9 x 15 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg
Orality and Literacy investigates the interactions of the oral and the literate through close studies of particular cultures at specific historical moments. Rejecting the 'great-divide' theory of orality and literacy as separate and opposite to one another, the contributors posit that whatever meanings the two concepts have are products of their ever-changing relationships to one another. Through topics as diverse as Aboriginal Canadian societies, Ukrainian-Canadian narratives, and communities in ancient Greece, Medieval Europe, and twentieth-century Asia, these cross-disciplinary essays reveal the powerful ways in which cultural assumptions, such as those about truth, disclosure, performance, privacy, and ethics, can affect a society's uses of and approaches to both the written and the oral. The fresh perspectives in Orality and Literacy reinvigorate the subject, illuminating complex interrelationships rather than relying on universal generalizations about how literacy and orality function.
Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading and Listening at Batoche Part One: Questioning Truths 1. Boasting, Toasting, and Truthtelling 2. Orality about Literacy: The "Black and White" of Salish History Keith Thor Carlson Part Two: Writing it Down 3. The Philosopher's Art: Ring Composition and Classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus 4. The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: The Textualization of Stories from Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions Part Three: Going Public 5. "Private Stories" in Aboriginal Literature 6. From Family Lore to a People's History: Ukrainian Claims to the Canadian Prairies Part Four: Subverting Authority 7. Literacy, Orality, Authority, and Hypocrisy 8. Unstable Texts and Modal Approaches to the Written Word in Medieval European Ritual Magic Part Five: Uncovering Voices 9. A Tagalog Awit of the "Holy War" against the United States, 1899-1902 10. Telling the Untold: Representations of Ethnic and Regional Identities in Ukrainian Women's Autobiographies Contributors
Map of Selected Place Names
Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
J. Edward Chamberlin
Twyla Gibson
Susan Gingell
Kristina Fagan
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Gary Arbuckle
Frank Klaassen
Reynaldo Illeto
Oksana Kis
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