#JLFBoulder 2015: The Spoken Word- Celebrating Oral Literatures
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Channel: Jaipur Literature Festival · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism
Orality and spoken language is the intangible essence of a living community. A distinguished panel of writers, translators and scholars discuss the legacy of oral literatures from different traditions and strategies of understanding, archiving and transmitting the fluidity and spontaneity of the living word. Professor and writer Christi Merrill, scholar and writer Linda Hess, author-poet Marcia Douglas, author and story-teller Laura Simms, writer and academic Vikram Chandra in conversation with author and broadcaster Claudia Cragg.
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