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Literary value/cultural power : verbal arts in the twenty-first century

Lynette Hunter examines the marginalised verbal arts: written and spoken texts that don't fit the conventional patterns, such as e-mail, writing from the Black diaspora, women's writing and electronic texts. She asks how, given their importance to their communities, they might be valued.
Print Book, English, 2001
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001
156 p. ; 22 cm
9780719061813, 9780719061820, 0719061814, 0719061822
912203929
What is literary value?; global voices - second-rate writing from Third-World countries?; orature, oratory and getting the message heard; telling stories/telling tales; electronic etiquette in the global community; lost in hyperspace - hypertexts and textual value; is letter-writing literature? and what about diaries?; do you take risks when you read? or risk-taking in reading; textual communities - how do we recognise value in the verbal arts?