Writing never arrives naked : early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia / Penny van Toorn.
by
Van Toorn, Penny, 1952-, author.
ISBN
:
9780855755447
Title
:
Writing never arrives naked : early Aboriginal cultures of writing in Australia / Penny van Toorn.
Author
:
Van Toorn, Penny, 1952-, author.
Personal Author
:
Van Toorn, Penny, 1952-, author.
Physical Description
:
ix, 270 pages : facsimilies ; 23 cm.
General Note
:
Includes index.
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.
Subject Term
:
Aboriginal Australian literature -- History and criticism.
Written communication -- History -- Australia.
Aboriginal Australian literature.
Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- History and criticism.
Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors.
Written communication -- Australia.
Format
:
Electronic Resources
Publication Date
:
2006
Publication Information
:
Canberra :
Aboriginal Studies Press,
2006.
| Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
|---|
| 820.989915 VAN | Book | 1 | Standard shelving location | Standard shelving location |