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Orature The oral transmission of narratives and customs. Our text book tells us that Orature is the oral analogue of Literature. According the text, the Romantic era (late 1700s, early 1800s) opened the critical mind to the possibility that Orature such as Native myths and folktales, Fairy Tales and jokes may be a form of Literature just as that which is written from the first is Literature. The editors of our book argue that the Romantic thinkers shifted the emphasis of literature from the form it appears in (written form being the only allowable Literature) to that which is expressed (that is, what something -- whether written or not -- actually says, the values it contains, and its emotional content). Are the family stories that your family trades over the years possibly a form of Literature? By Kenneth Ogboi AKA General Dj Indo Wet Weed Orature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken (oral) word to literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word. It thus forms a generally more fundamental component of culture, but operates in many ways as one might expect literature to do. Pre-literate societies, by definition, have no written literature, but may possess a rich and varied orature.

Orature covers oral traditions, folk epics, folklore and folksong.

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