Voices from the forest: the updated orality in the indigenous literary writtings

Abstract

This paper aims to show how there has been the process of indigenous writing in Brazil and how those texts written by the indians themselves have been coated with a literary character. We will reflect specially on one of the main characteristics of this contemporany indigenous literature: its close relationship with the oral tradition, since the stories, songs, poems and myths – that were transmitted only through oral tradition from generation to generation – are being fixed written form and published in book format.