Oral Goes Viral - Reversing the Print Revolution

Oral performers inhabit - and are inhabited by - their poetry; the poem lives and breathes and has its being within its author. [...]an oral performance can project an authorial authenticity that is not producible via the mere parroting of a written text, whereas Western cultures, by contrast, have...

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Published in:Transnational literature 2018-05, Vol.10 (2), p.1-A4
Main Author: Marsden, Peter H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Audiences
Binding
Discovery tools
Empowerment
Encyclopedias
Genre
Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)
Indigenous peoples
Industrial Revolution
Knight, Etheridge
Literacy
Literature
New Zealand literature
Poetics
Poetry
Poets
Postmodernism
Prisons
Publishing
Rare books
Writers
Written language
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Summary:Oral performers inhabit - and are inhabited by - their poetry; the poem lives and breathes and has its being within its author. [...]an oral performance can project an authorial authenticity that is not producible via the mere parroting of a written text, whereas Western cultures, by contrast, have come to regard the written as definitive, as (legally) binding. [...]non-closure:15 This is a quality shared with much modern and postmodern literature in Western culture/s. [...]you don't even have to be a person in order to be greeted: 'remember ... / to greet the meeting house' (ll.5-6). [...]orality lends itself to the addressing of topics of crucial interest to indigenous people/s - e.g. eco-issues.
ISSN:1836-4845