- Orature and Literature - CanLit Guides
To remedy the bias against orality, scholars use the term orature to refer to speeches, oral tales, and other narratives as an analogous word for literature (Gingell and Roy 5)
- Oral literature - Wikipedia
Oral literature, orature, or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is written, though much oral literature has been transcribed [1]
- Oral literature | History, Characteristics Types | Britannica
Oral literature is, arguably, the best phrase available for describing these two senses The term oral covers both, but these two meanings should be distinguished
- Orature - The Artifice
The term, orature, is coined by Pio Zirimu, a Ugandan linguist According to the website of The World Oral Literature Project, established by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Yale University, Zirimu did so in avoidance of an oxymoron, which is “oral literature”
- Differentiate Oral literature Orature Folklore Oracy - Studocu
Oral literature refers to the tradition of passing down stories, poems, and other forms of literature through spoken word rather than through written texts It encompasses a wide range of cultural expressions and can include myths, legends, proverbs, and folktales
- Oral Literature : A Living Legacy of Language and Imagination
Oral literature—sometimes referred to as orature —is the expressive tradition of stories, poems, songs, and proverbs that are passed down orally rather than written
- World Oral Literature Project : About
Most simply, oral literature refers to any form of verbal art which is transmitted orally or delivered by word of mouth Orature is a more recent and less widely used term which emphasises the oral character and nature of literary works
- Orature - Oxford Reference
A portmanteau term coined by the Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o to denote imaginative works of the oral tradition usually referred to as ‘oral literature’
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