Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison’s Oraliture: Writing Fiction against the Grain - Sy, Ousseynou (Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 2019)
Keywords: Aesthetics; African American literature; African culture; Africanism; American literature; Austrian literature; Authenticity; Authorship; Censorship; Comparative Study of Literature; Consciousness; counterdiscourse; Cultural identity; Culture; Ellison, Ralph (1914-1994); Epic literature; Eurocentric; Exegesis & hermeneutics; Fairy tales; Fiction; Folklore; Genre; Historiography; Ideology; Intersectionality; Language and Literature Studies; Literary characters; Literary criticism; Literary devices; Literary influences; Literary translation; Logic; Magical realism; Morrison, Toni (1931-2019); Music; Musil, Robert (1880-1942); Narratives; Novels; Oral literature; oraliture; orature; Poetics; Politics; Prose; Racial identity; Studies of Literature; subvert; Traditions; visibility; Writers; Africa; Eurocentric; subversion; visibility; counterdiscourse; Africanism; oraliture; orature; historiography