%0 Journal Article %1 10.1215/08992363-8090173 %A Best, Stephen %D 2020 %J Public Culture %K classic-work-treatment media-theory medium-analysis ong %N 2 (91) %P 431-439 %R 10.1215/08992363-8090173 %T Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (1982) %U https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8090173 %V 32 %X Walter Ong published Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word in 1982, synthesizing his career-long concern with the impact of the shift from orality to literacy on various cultures. Scholars of African American literary and cultural studies were coming to redefine their field around the terms orality and literacy at around the same time that Ong published his book; but where Ong stressed historical change or the fall from orality to literacy, African Americanists tended to accent their mutual mediation. This article explores the way that African Americanists, in stressing mediation, return orality and literacy to the concerns of Ong’s ostensible field: media studies.

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