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Oral Literature and Performance (Definitions of Oral Literature…
Oral Literature and Performance
Features of Oral Literature
Embodied rhythm
Clear and uncomplex structure
Repetition
verbal, incidents and rhythmic repetition
Cannon of Oral Literature
Found in stories, spoken poetry, jokes, riddles, & urban legends
Some are more rude than others
Hard to identify
Definitions of Oral Literature
"circulates by oral rather than written means"
Alternative suggestions
Epos, greek for song a speech
Pio Zirimu, orature
Oral means non written
For those who choose not to read and write
Composition, Distribution, and Performance
Even if it is an oral story, writing can be involved
When signed literature is written down, it is not the original composition
Composition and performance are closely tied
Stories sometimes changed as they were told
Oral literature is hardly ever memorized
Text and Performance
Text means something woven
Text is static and fixed while a performance cannot be separated from its creation
Heidi Rose
ASL literature "moves through time and space"
Impact of Video Technology
Recordings of signed literature only widespread in the 1970s
Pre-videotape literature
materials passed down orally and face to face
Heidi Rose and Christopher Krentz investigated
Pre-videotape literature
Literature produced after the spread of video