The effect of the oral tradition on language and storytelling in women’s texts.

  “The art of producing essentials – children, food, cloth – is woman’s ultimate creativity. If it is taken as absence in the context of patriarchal culture, it is celebrated within the female community by the matrilineal traditions of oral storytelling” (Gubar, “‘The Blank Page’ and the Issues of Female Creativity,” 267) Discuss the effect of the oral tradition on language and storytelling in women’s texts.