Orality and Literacy

Keith Thor Carlson is a professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley where he holds a Tier One Canada Research Chair in Indigenous and Community-Engaged History. Kristina Fagan is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen is the director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta.

Acknowledgments
Map of Selected Place Names

Introduction: Reading and Listening at Batoche
Keith Thor Carlson, Kristina Fagan, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen

Part One: Questioning Truths

1. Boasting, Toasting, and Truthtelling
J. Edward Chamberlin

2. Orality about Literacy: The "Black and White" of Salish History Keith Thor Carlson

Part Two: Writing it Down

3. The Philosopher's Art: Ring Composition and Classification in Plato's Sophist and Hipparchus
Twyla Gibson

4. The Social Lives of Sedna and Sky Woman: The Textualization of Stories from Inuit and Mohawk Oral Traditions
Susan Gingell

Part Three: Going Public

5. "Private Stories" in Aboriginal Literature
Kristina Fagan

6. From Family Lore to a People's History: Ukrainian Claims to the Canadian Prairies
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen

Part Four: Subverting Authority

7. Literacy, Orality, Authority, and Hypocrisy
Gary Arbuckle

8. Unstable Texts and Modal Approaches to the Written Word in Medieval European Ritual Magic
Frank Klaassen

Part Five: Uncovering Voices

9. A Tagalog Awit of the "Holy War" against the United States, 1899-1902
Reynaldo Illeto

10. Telling the Untold: Representations of Ethnic and Regional Identities in Ukrainian Women's Autobiographies
Oksana Kis

Contributors
Index