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Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Writing in Australia by Penny van Toorn (Paperback, 2006)

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You are buying ONE brand new BOOK Writing Never Arrives Naked - Early Aboriginal Writing in Australia. Author: Penny van Toorn. Year first published: 2006. Approximate dimensions: 230mm x 154mm.

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In Writing Never Arrives Naked , Penny van Toorn engages our minds and hearts. In this academically innovative book she reveals the resourceful and often poignant ways that Indigenous Australians involved themselves in the colonisers' paper culture. The first Aboriginal readers were children stolen from the clans around Sydney Harbour. The first Aboriginal author was Bennelong -- a stolen adult. From the early years of colonisation, Aboriginal people used written texts to negotiate a changing world, to challenge their oppressors, protect country and kin, and occasionally for economic gain. Van Toorn argues that Aboriginal people were curious about books and papers, and in time began to integrate letters of the alphabet into their graphic traditions. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Aboriginal people played key roles in translating the Bible, and made their political views known in community and regional newspapers. They also sent numerous letters and petitions to political figures, including Queen Victoria. Penny van Toorn challenges the established notion that the colonists' paper culture superseded Indigenous oral cultures. She argues that Indigenous communities developed their own cultures of reading and writing, which involved a complex interplay between their own social protocols and the practices of literacy introduced by the British. Many distinctive features of Aboriginal writing today were shaped by the cultural, socio-political and institutional conditions in which Aboriginal people were living in colonial times.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN-13
9780855755447
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94452655

Product Key Features

Book Title
Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Writing in Australia
Author
Penny Van Toorn
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Anthropology
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
270 Pages

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Item Height
230mm
Item Width
154mm
Item Weight
500 g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Penny Van Toorn
Topic Area
Regional History
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia

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