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Playing on both minds and emotions, this academically innovative book reveals the resourceful and often poignant ways that Indigenous Australians involved themselves in the colonists’ paper culture. Reveals the resourceful ways that Indigenous Australians involved themselves in the colonisers' paper culture. This book argues that Aboriginal people were curious about books and papers, and in time began to integrate letters of the alphabet into their graphic traditions. 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 Penny van Toorn challenges the established notion that the colonists' paper culture superseded Indigenous oral cultures.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 From the Publisher: This enthralling new history of Aboriginal writing challenges conventional beliefs about how and when Indigenous authorship began. Within a short time of settlement, written texts were being exchanged as curiosities, and integrated into Indigenous graphic traditions and social life. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Aboriginal people used writing in community newspapers, in letters to colonial governors, in individualized and subversive translations of the Bible, and in political documents such as the Coranderrk petitions for Aboriginal rights. This writing involved a complex interplay of oral and literate traditions, which was attuned both to the strictures of traditional culture and the socio-political environment of the time. Writing Never Arrives Naked deals with real stories of how Indigenous Australians used writing and reading to negotiate a changing world, to challenge their oppressors, and to preserve country and kin. The book extends and deepens knowledge of Indigenous cultural and political history, while casting new light on present-day Indigenous literature and literacies

Playing on both minds and emotions, this academically innovative book reveals the resourceful and often poignant ways that Indigenous Australians involved themselves in the colonists’ paper culture.