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Writing never arrives naked : early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia / Penelope van Toorn.

Writing never arrives naked : early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia / Penelope van Toorn.
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ISBN 9780855755447
085575544X
Author Van Toorn, Penny, 1952-
Title Writing never arrives naked : early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia / Penelope van Toorn.
Portion of title Early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia
Publisher and/or associated date/s Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006.
Description ix, 270 p. : facsims. ; 23 cm.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: p. 231-256.
Contents Introduction. Sites of writing -- 1. Encountering the alphabet -- 2. Sky gods and stolen children -- 3. Bennelong's letter -- 4. Borderlands of Aboriginal writing -- 5. Textual battlegrounds in Van Diemen's Land -- 6. Literacy, land and power: the Coranderrk petitions -- 7. Hidden transcripts at Lake Condah Mission Station --8. Early writings by Aboriginal women -- 9. A book by any other name...? -- Conclusion. The past is not another country.
Summary This enthralling new history of Aboriginal writing challenges conventional beliefs about how and when indigenous authorship began. This book deals with real stories of how Indigenous Australians used writing and reading to negotiate a changing world, to challenge their oppressors, to preserve country and kin.
Subjects Aboriginal Australian literature
Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors
Written communication -- Australia
Call number EDWARDS 820.989915 VAN
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