orature

[ awr-uh-cher, or- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

oral literature; stories, poems, histories, etc., shared only or primarily in spoken form, especially in an exclusively oral culture:
Consider the trickster Anansi of Akan orature—the spider who was a man, the man who was a spider.
This thesis examines the impact of orature on the works of four Indigenous women writers.

Origin of orature¹

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