Folklore/littérature/orature : frontières et cloisonnements dans l'histoire littéraire indienne

This article, which draws on the author’s research experience on North Indian literatures, traces the genealogy of scholarship on Indian oral traditions in France. By assessing the situation of orality in the history of Indian literatures and the classifications used to study these corpuses, this ar...

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Published in:Revue de littérature comparée 2015-10, Vol.356, p.447
Main Author: Servan-Schreiber, Catherine
Format: Article
Language:fre
Subjects:
Academic disciplines
Cultural instruction
Folklore
Indian literature
Intercultural communication
Interdisciplinary subjects
Oral tradition
Reception (Artistic works)
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Summary:This article, which draws on the author’s research experience on North Indian literatures, traces the genealogy of scholarship on Indian oral traditions in France. By assessing the situation of orality in the history of Indian literatures and the classifications used to study these corpuses, this article reconstructs the different steps that have helped to transgress the partitions in the field between “literature,” “orature” and “folklore.” It also calls for a de-compartmentalization of disciplines and of area studies, by focusing on the pivotal role of orality, which concerns literature as much as anthropology.
ISSN:0035-1466
1965-0264