@inbook{dd5ed57c39a84687b02523487f7ae63e,
title = "Written and Unwritten Literary Geographies: Doing World Literature from the Perspective of Oral Texts ",
abstract = "World literature as the new discipline of global literary and comparative studies has been focusing almost exclusively on written literatures, and specifically on the novel. Orature plays a determinant role in literary expression around the world, yet unwritten verbal arts have been explicitly excluded from definitions of world literature. This introduction discusses key terms like orature, oral literatures and oral traditions, and outlines how a focus on oral texts and performances enriches our understanding of literature, and of world literature.",
author = "Sara Marzagora and Francesca Orsini",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 Sara Marzagora and Francesca Orsini.",
year = "2025",
month = jan,
day = "31",
doi = "10.11647/obp.0405.00",
language = "English",
isbn = " 978-1-80511-311-9",
series = "World Oral Literature",
publisher = "Open Book Publishers",
pages = "5--46",
editor = "Sara Marzagora and Orsini, \{Francesca \}",
booktitle = "Oral Literary Worlds",
}