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Interorality is a new but certainly welcomed lens through which Caribbean philosophy can further its ongoing tasks of self-reflection and postcolonial reconstruction. This new concept was introduced to the field of Caribbean Studies by HanéthaVété-Congolo, a literary and culture scholar from Martinique . She developed it during the course of her work on Caribbean folktales and their genesis in the mixing of African and European folktales. Caribbean folktales are a part of a larger oral tradition, and so were many of the African and European folktales from which the Caribbean ones drew. Thus, Vété-Congolo ’s study of Caribbean folktales raises not only the question of orality but also of interorality as a part of a larger process of hybridization and creolization.
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Henry, P. (2016). Interorality and Caribbean Philosophy. In: Vété-Congolo, H. (eds) The Caribbean Oral Tradition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32088-5_2
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