Indigenous transnationalism : Alexis Wright's Carpentaria / edited by Lynda Ng.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ng, Lynda, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wright, Alexis, 1950---Criticism and interpretation.

Wright, Alexis.

Queensland-Social life and customs.

Wright, Alexis,-1950--Criticism and interpretation.

Queensland--Social life and customs.

Queensland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Artarmon, N.S.W. : Giramondo Publishing Company, 2018.

Summary:

After Aboriginal author Alexis Wright's novel, Carpentaria , won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007, it rapidly achieved the status of a classic. The novel is widely read and studied in Australia, and overseas, and valued for its imaginative power, its epic reach, and its remarkable use of language.

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

Survival, Environment and Creativity in a Global Age: Alexis Wright's Carpentaria

III. 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.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-925818-07-1

OCLC:

1082199664