Orality and literacy reflections across disciplines /
edited by Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen.
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2011.
- 1 online resource (vi, 336 pages) map.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : reading and listening at Batoche / part 1. Questioning truths. Boasting, toasting, and truthtelling / Orality about literacy : the 'black and white' of Salish history / part 2. Writing it down. The philosopher's art : ring composition and classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus / The social lives of Sedna and Sky Woman : the textualization of stories from Inuit and Kanien'kahake Mohawk oral traditions / part 3. Going public. 'Private stories' in aboriginal literature / From family lore to a people's history : Ukrainian claims to the Canadian prairies / part 4. Subverting authority. Literacy, orality, authority, and hypocrisy in the Laozi / Unstable texts and modal approaches to the written word in medieval European ritual magic / part 5. Uncovering voices. A tagalog awit of the 'Holy war' against the United States, 1899-1902 / Telling the untold : representations of ethnic and regional identities in Ukrainian women's autobiographies / Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen -- J. Edward Chamberlin -- Keith Thor Carlson -- Twyla Gibson -- Susan Gingell -- Kristina Fagan -- Natalia Khanenko-Friesen -- Gary Arbuckle -- Frank Klaassen -- Reynaldo C. Ileto -- Oksana Kis.
"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."--Dust jacket.