Writing Never Arrives Naked : Early Aboriginal Writing in Australia

Toorn (Australian literature and Australian studies, U. of Sydney) shares a cluster of stories illustrating how the cultures of reading and writing, introduced to Australia by the British in 1788, became entangled with the oldest living Indigenous culture in the world. They also address broader theoretical questions about reading and writing in intercultural contexts. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)