Sentences with phrase «from oral narratives»

For firsthand accounts from oral narratives, have students contact local African American community organizations for people who might provide oral histories.

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Whether these interpretative «morals» were added by the authors — or editors — of the Gospels or represent accretions to the narratives in the oral period does not greatly matter; what we want is the original parable or saying as it came from the lips of Jesus.

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.

The links, which state that the women were observers from a distance at both the crucifixion and the burial, appear to be editorial additions made by a literary editor, rather than part of an original narrative from oral tradition.

Adapted all too freely from Max Brooks» book of the same name, it attempts to coalesce the diverse oral histories that make up the novel into a simple narrative and fails.

Multiple first - person quotes drawn from primary source documents, including letters, slave narratives, and oral histories, fill the text.

Influenced by oral history of her family's arrival in America from the Philippines, she infuses these narratives with memory and imagination, addressing themes of migration and the permeable concept of home.

Recited fragments of ghost stories sourced from the oral tradition of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, form a continuous narrative linking one room to the next.

Influenced by the oral history of her family's arrival in the United States from the Philippines and of growing up in the midwest, Palileo infuses these narratives with both memory and imagination.

It was, in other words, a form of ontological warfare meant to separate children from their roots in language, cultural practices and oral narratives that fundamentally inform the way in which a person interacts with their environment.

Fragments of ghost stories sourced from an oral tradition in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, form a nonlinear narrative linking one room to the next.

Influenced by the oral history of her family's arrival in the United States from the Philippines, and of growing up in the midwest, Palileo infuses her narratives with both memory and imagination: as stories and recollections are subjected to time and constant retelling, the narratives become questionable, somewhere between fact and fiction, even as they remain cloaked in the convincingly familiar.