CIRCA:Oral Stories, Literacy and Digitization
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Oral-literary binary
Scott Richard Lyons, “Rhetorical Sovereignty: What do American Indians Want From Writing?”:
- George Kennedy's Comparative Rhetoric:An Historical and Cross-Cultural Introduction holds the view(stereotype dating back from 19th century) that Indians are essentially oral creatures that exist in an imagined savage past. "Finding in early human language a connecting link between the rhetoric of animals and that of oral (but not literate0 humans...Kennedy has...a quiet assumption that Indians are something less than human, if something more than animals"(459-60)--rhetorical imperialism
