Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Writing in Australia
Awards:   Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction 2007 Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2007 Shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction 2007. Shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2007.
Author:   Penny van Toorn
Publisher:   Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN:  

9780855755447


Pages:   270
Publication Date:   01 July 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Writing Never Arrives Naked: Early Aboriginal Writing in Australia


Awards

  • Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction 2007
  • Short-listed for Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2007
  • Shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Literary Award - Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction 2007.
  • Shortlisted for Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2007.

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Author:   Penny van Toorn
Publisher:   Aboriginal Studies Press
Imprint:   Aboriginal Studies Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780855755447


ISBN 10:   085575544
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   01 July 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction - Sites of writing; Encountering the alphabet; Sky gods and stolen children; Bennelong's letter; Borderlands of Aboriginal writing; Textual battlegrounds in Van Diemen's Land; Literacy, land and power: the Coranderrk petitions; Hidden transcripts at Lake Condah Mission Station; Early writings by Aboriginal women; A book by any other name...?; Conclusion - The past is not another country; Index.

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Author Information

Penny van Toorn is a senior lecturer in Australian Literature and Australian Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on the Indigenous Literatures of Australia and Canada, and worked collaboratively with Australian Indigenous authors and academics.

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