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Global Indigenous Oral Traditions: Storytelling and Intergenerational Transmission of Knowledge
Abstract
Literature, particularly novels, serves as a platform for exploring Indigenous oral traditions—dynamic, culturally embedded knowledge systems. Novels by Indigenous authors extend oral storytelling within written narratives. This study examines how Indigenous oral traditions are preserved, transformed, and transmitted through novels from America, Canada, India, Australia, and Africa. Focusing on ten works, it explores storytelling as both a literary technique and an epistemological framework and act of cultural resistance. The selected novels include Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko), There There (Tommy Orange), Green Grass, Running Water (Thomas King), The Marrow Thieves (Cherie Dimaline), The Legend of Pensam (Mamang Dai), Son of the Thundercloud (Easterine Kire), Carpentaria (Alexis Wright), The Swan Book (Alexis Wright), The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Amos Tutuola), and The Healers (Ayi Kwei Armah). Using qualitative research and close reading, the study identifies oral narrative elements, affirming fiction as a vessel for Indigenous knowledge and cultural survival.
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