What point did stories and narratives become literature

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Consider that before Homer's epics and the Bible were written down, they existed as oral narratives, told from one generation to the next, and that there has been a rich tradition of storytelling in Africa. At what point did stories and narratives become "literature"? Does the act of recording them in writing constitute the decisive transformation into "literature"?

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