Orality and Literacy

Reflections Across Disciplines

AvKeith Thor Carlson,Kristina Fagan

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Engelska, 2011

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-04-30
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:344
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781442669239
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
Vikt:1 g

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Keith Thor Carlson is a professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley where he holds a Tier One Canada Research Chair in Indigenous and Community-Engaged History.Kristina Fagan is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan.Natalia Khanenko-Friesen is the director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta.

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Acknowledgments Map of Selected Place Names Introduction: Reading and Listening at Batoche Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-FriesenPart One: Questioning Truths 1. Boasting, Toasting, and Truthtelling J. Edward Chamberlin2. Orality about Literacy: The "Black and White" of Salish History Keith Thor CarlsonPart Two: Writing it Down 3. The Philosopher's Art: Ring Composition and Classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus Twyla Gibson4. The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: The Textualization of Stories from Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions Susan GingellPart Three: Going Public 5. "Private Stories" in Aboriginal Literature Kristina Fagan 6. From Family Lore to a People's History: Ukrainian Claims to the Canadian Prairies Natalia Khanenko-FriesenPart Four: Subverting Authority 7. Literacy, Orality, Authority, and Hypocrisy Gary Arbuckle 8. Unstable Texts and Modal Approaches to the Written Word in Medieval European Ritual Magic Frank KlaassenPart Five: Uncovering Voices 9. A Tagalog Awit of the "Holy War" against the United States, 1899-1902Reynaldo Illeto10. Telling the Untold: Representations of Ethnic and Regional Identities in Ukrainian Women's Autobiographies Oksana KisContributors Index