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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