ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aboriginal Voices Radio Network
13 Apr 2016
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stories encompasses a complex spectrum of oral histories traditional knowledge, cultural teachings and scared legends. Stories provide guidance, maintain historical record, sustain cultures and identities. Contemporary first nations writes continue to be influenced by oral traditions. Writers textualize the orature of their people and thus thematize orality, and storytelling practices in prose fiction. The world is made coherent through narrative, through storytelling. Stories are a wondrous things, but can also be dangerous. First nation stories create a space for aboriginal voices and representation of aboriginal people. The punctuation is in the pauses of one speaking. Loud talker (other people"s voices can"t be heard) Story of adam and eve is the creation of the world. The creation of earth is a solitary task. Evening connotes of being on the edge, the euro sense god is in charge, in the story of the elder it is about equality and balance. God is being characterized as the anthropologists where.
