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Reading Guide for "Native American Oral Literature" These questions and vocabulary words found below are used to build our weekly Reading Checks, so you'd do well to print these Reading Guides out and take notes on them as you read. Vocabulary -- Try circling the words in the text as you find them. You may need to be able to easily locate them later on.
Dates of Interest: Columbus arrives in the New World Native Population of the Bahamas begins to die off in great numbers The wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca Why was Europe of the 14-1500s considered "monolithic" [the word "monolithic" is not in the reading? What stimulated the development of literacy and "book culture"? [approx date?] What, in general, was the biggest socio-cultural difference between the old world and the new? Can you list some specific examples by making a chart like the one below?
Define "orature" and contrast it to "littera - tura." Name several types of literature. Name several types of orature. When did the change come that allowed Europeans to think of orature as a type of literature? What was the name of the philosophical/literary movement that encouraged this change in thinking? How exactly did this philosophical/literary movement change the way we think of about art and literature?
What controversy did the "orality" of Native forms cause in the
translation process? Optional web sites of Interest? |