| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Looking Beyond the Local: Indigenous Literature as a World Literature; I. Localities and Limits of the Land; The Geo-Graphics of an Indigenous World Literature in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria; The Notions of Permanence: Autochthony, Indigeneity, Locality in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria; Polarized Postcolonial Indigeneities: Carpentaria and Heart of Light; II. Transnational Flows; Indigeneity and Whiteness: Reading Carpentaria and The Sun, My Father in the Context of Globalization; The Poetics of Relation in Carpentaria |
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Survival, Environment and Creativity in a Global Age: Alexis Wright's CarpentariaIII. Waste, Pollution and Regeneration; An Abundance of Waste: Carpentaria's Re-Valuation of Excess; Rubbish Palaces, Islands of Junk: On the Function of Tropes of Pollution in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria; Afterword; The Vastness of Voice; Appendix; On Writing Carpentaria; Author Biographies; Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
Indigenous Transnationalism brings together eight essays by critics from seven different countries, each analysing Alexis Wright's novel Carpentaria from a distinct national perspective. Taken together, these diverse voices highlight themes from the novel that resonate across cultures and continents: the primacy of the land; the battles that indigenous peoples fight for their language, culture and sovereignty; a concern with the environment and the effects of pollution. At the same time, by comparing the Aboriginal experience to that of other indigenous peoples, they demonstrate the means by w |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wright, Alexis, 1950- Carpentaria
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Wright, Alexis, 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Wright, Alexis, 1950- fast |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Aboriginal Australians
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Manners and customs
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Queensland -- Social life and customs
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Queensland
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ng, Lynda, editor
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Analysis of (work) Wright, Alexis, 1950-
Carpentaria
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| ISBN |
9781925818086 |
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192581808X |
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9781925818079 |
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1925818071 |
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