Name: Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire
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Author: Ballantyne, Tony ; Paterson, Lachy ; Wanhalla, Angela
ISBN: 9781478009764

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Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire

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Physical Book

Publisher

Duke University Press

Author

Ballantyne, Tony ; Paterson, Lachy ; Wanhalla, Angela

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.4 x 15.7 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.86 kg.

ISBN13

9781478009764

Synopsis "Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire"

As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of "native" societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change. Yet as the contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures make clear through cases from the Pacific Islands, Australasia, North America, and Africa, indigenous communities were highly adaptive and created novel, dynamic literary practices that preserved indigenous knowledge traditions. The contributors illustrate how modern literacy operated alongside orality rather than replacing it. Reconstructing multiple traditions of indigenous literacy and textual production, the contributors focus attention on the often hidden, forgotten, neglected, and marginalized cultural innovators who read, wrote, and used texts in endlessly creative ways. This volume demonstrates how the work of these innovators played pivotal roles in reimagining indigenous epistemologies, challenging colonial domination, and envisioning radical new futures. Contributors. Noelani Arista, Tony Ballantyne, Alban Bensa, Keith Thor Carlson, Evelyn Ellerman, Isabel Hofmeyr, Emma Hunter, Arini Loader, Adrian Muckle, Lachy Paterson, Laura Rademaker, Michael P. J. Reilly, Bruno Saura, Ivy T. Schweitzer, Angela Wanhalla

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