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lore media with which a society conducts profound and common cultural affairs among its members, orally. In this sense, oral lore is an ancient practice and concept natural to the earliest storied communications and transmissions of bodies of knowledge and culture in verbal form from the dawn of language-based human societies, and 'oral literature' thus understood was putatively recognized in times prior to recordings of history in non-oral media, including painting and writing.
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Building on Zirimu's orature concept, Mbube Nwi-Akeeri explained that Western theories cannot effectively capture and explain oral literature, particularly those indigenous to regions such as Africa. The reason is that there are elements to oral traditions in these places that cannot be captured by
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which may interact with these forms, extend their expression, or offer additional expressive media. Thus even where no phrase in local language which exactly translates "oral literature" is used, what constitutes "oral literature" as understood today is already understood to be part or all of the
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have used varying descriptions for oral literature or folk literature. A broad conceptualization refers to it as literature characterized by oral transmission and the absence of any fixed form. It includes the stories, legends, and history passed through generations in a spoken form.
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Oral tradition is seen in societies with vigorous oral conveyance practices to be a general term inclusive of both oral literature and any written literature, including sophisticated writings, as well, potentially, as visual and
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communicate manually rather than orally, their culture and traditions are considered in the same category as oral literature. Stories, jokes and poetry are passed on from person to person with no written medium.
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words alone, such as the existence of gestures, dance, and the interaction between the storyteller and the audience. According to Nwi-Akeeri, oral literature is not only a narrative, but also a
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and Hervé Maupeu (2007), it is stated (page 204) that Zirimu, who coined the term, defines orature as "the use of utterance as an aesthetic means of expression" (as quoted by
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Vansina, Jan (1978), "Oral Tradition, Oral History: Achievements and Perspectives", in B. Bernardi, C. Poni and A. Triulzi (eds),
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Tsaaior, James Tar (2010), "Webbed words, masked meanings: Proverbiality and narrative/discursive strategies" in D. T. Niane's
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From the 1970s onwards, the term "Oral literature" appears in the work of both literary scholars and anthropologists:
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Pre-literate societies, by definition, have no written literature, but may possess rich and varied
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Literate societies may continue an oral tradition — particularly within the family (for example
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Oral literature as a concept, after 19th-century antecedents, was more widely circulated by
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in their comparative work on the "growth of literature" (1932–40). In 1960,
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Oral literatures forms a generally more fundamental component of
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is a genre of poetry that consciously shuns the written form.
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Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
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remains more common both in academic and popular writing.
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may be considered an example of oral literature, as can
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Defining New Idioms and Alternative Forms of Expression
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Orality and Literacy: the technologizing of the word
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that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is
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Index

Folktales
Suwenxue congkan
Folk tale (disambiguation)
Literature

Oral literature
Folklore
fable
fairy tale
folk play
folksong
heroic epic
legend
myth
proverb
Oration
Performance
audiobook
spoken word
Saying
Drama
closet drama
Poetry
lyric
narrative
Prose
Nonsense
verse
Ergodic
Electronic

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