Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire Ballantyne Tony
Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire Ballantyne Tony As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority…
Specifikacia Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire Ballantyne Tony
Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire Ballantyne Tony
As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. 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. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of "native" societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change.
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 The contributors illustrate how modern literacy operated alongside orality rather than replacing it.
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