Orality: Postcolonial Theory concepts | Postcolonialism
Channel: Dr. Masood Raja
Date: 2020-02-17

What is Orality in Postcolonialism?
This a brief discussion of orality and its function against the privileging of literacy in colonized cultures.
This isa  brief discussion of orality as a concept and as a practice during colonial phase. 
A brief description of Postcolonialism as a field of study: Postcolonialism and postcolonial literature and post colonial theory emerged as a viable sub field of English studies in the US and now is considered an established field of studies in the humanities. Understanding orality is important in postcolonialism theory as it informs major debates about the of oral cultural production of native cultures of Africa, Asia, and elsewhere.

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