Mediaization and publishing of african oral literatures

Abstract

Oral literature, in its original declension, is by nature "immediate", that is, it has no need no medium other than the support of voice and articulate language to be transmitted. It’s literature of the deixis which is only manifested in a given moment between a sending instance and a receiving instance present here and now, these can be singular or collective. But the development of various types of Widespread media around the world has long favored its media coverage. This was first the case with the radio then television and, more recently, with all the possibilities offered by the Internet and all the sites of the web.  This media coverage goes beyond the case of the actual edition of these works which corresponds to a legal framework precise; however, it comes under the same fundamental problem insofar as it allows delayed communication, possibly reversible and above all reproducible insofar as their recording allows storage of these performances. But the most widespread method of disseminating statements from oral literature, especially before the digital revolution, there is still publishing, whether in the form of paper (books) or in form of audio (discs, CDs) and audiovisual (DVD) publications.