This book investigates the relationship between storytellers,
contexts and collective tradition, based on an analysis of North
Smi narratives published in the early 1900s. This study serves as
an act of "revoicing," of recovering voices that had been silenced
by the scientific discourse which enveloped their passage into
print. It highlights the dynamic and conscious choices of narrative
strategies made by these storytellers and the implications of the
discourses expressed in narration. The analysis demonstrates that
storytelling is an elaboration that takes place in negotiation with
tradition, genres and individual preferences. The repertoires of
four storytellers are studied according to a critical discourse
analysis from a folkloristic perspective. Based on a receptionalist
approach, this book investigates the implications of these
narratives for the North Smi community at the turn of the 20th
century. Storytelling appears to have had a set of functions for
community members, from the normative as regards socialization,
information and warning against dangers to the defensive with the
elaboration of a discourse about solidarity, identity and
empowerment.
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