[ La littérature orale africaine contemporaine ]
Volume 27, Issue 1, August 2019, Pages 351–361
Ekombe Ekofo Gertrude1
1 Département de Français et Langues Africaines, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de la Gombe, Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et Universitaire, Kinshasa, RD Congo
Original language: French
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This article discusses the problem of the existence of oral literature in contemporary times. The term contemporaneity contradicts the past to which most of the definitions of oral literature always refer (to a people’s past). This is why, for some people, the transcription of ancient oral literary genres has automatically consecrated the end or death of African oral literature. In this modest study, therefore, there is talk of demonstrating, with supporting evidence, that the oral literature is still current and alive to this day. Handwriting is thus far from having superseded orality. The advent of new information and communication technologies (Icts) has, on the contrary, strengthened the position of orality, which ceases to be the prerogative of societies without writing.
Author Keywords: contemporary, Africa, oral literature.
Volume 27, Issue 1, August 2019, Pages 351–361
Ekombe Ekofo Gertrude1
1 Département de Français et Langues Africaines, Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de la Gombe, Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et Universitaire, Kinshasa, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2019 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This article discusses the problem of the existence of oral literature in contemporary times. The term contemporaneity contradicts the past to which most of the definitions of oral literature always refer (to a people’s past). This is why, for some people, the transcription of ancient oral literary genres has automatically consecrated the end or death of African oral literature. In this modest study, therefore, there is talk of demonstrating, with supporting evidence, that the oral literature is still current and alive to this day. Handwriting is thus far from having superseded orality. The advent of new information and communication technologies (Icts) has, on the contrary, strengthened the position of orality, which ceases to be the prerogative of societies without writing.
Author Keywords: contemporary, Africa, oral literature.
Abstract: (french)
Le présent article aborde la problématique de l’existence de la littérature orale à l’époque contemporaine. La qualification de contemporanéité entre en contradiction avec le passé auquel la plupart des définitions de la littérature orale font toujours référence (au passé d’un peuple). C’est pourquoi, pour certaines personnes, la transcription des genres littéraires oraux anciens a consacré automatiquement la fin ou la mort de la littérature orale africaine. Il est donc question, dans cette modeste étude de démontrer, preuves à l’appui, que la littérature orale est toujours d’actualité et bien vivante jusqu’à ce jour. L’écriture est donc loin d’avoir supplanté l’oralité. L’avènement de nouvelles technologies de l’information et de communication (NTIC) a, au contraire, renforcé la position de l’oralité qui cesse d’être l’apanage des sociétés sans écriture.
Author Keywords: littérature orale, Afrique, contemporain.
How to Cite this Article
Ekombe Ekofo Gertrude, “Contemporary African oral literature,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 351–361, August 2019.
