Oral Traditional Performance and Its Implication for Nigerian Literature in English

Abstract

All literary works across across settings and over periods need the crucial raw materials of tradition to absorb some of the teachings of modern science. The writer`s explanation of new methods and new standards of living can only be better understood through logical explicitness of both new standards and the existing `dead` standards. Modern writers are therefore larger parasites feeding on the native rhythms, imageries, weight of words, context, content, pre-knowledge of the existing culture and tradition.