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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Map of Selected Place Names
Introduction: Reading and Listening at Batoche
Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
Part One: Questioning Truths
1. Boasting, Toasting, and Truthtelling
J. Edward Chamberlin
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
Twyla Gibson
4. The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: The Textualization of Stories from Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions
Susan Gingell
Part 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-Friesen
Part 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 Klaassen
Part Five: Uncovering Voices
9. A Tagalog Awit of the "Holy War" against the United States, 1899-1902
Reynaldo Illeto
10. Telling the Untold: Representations of Ethnic and Regional Identities in Ukrainian Women's Autobiographies
Oksana Kis
Contributors
Index