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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wright, Alexis, 1950- Carpentaria.
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Wright, Alexis, 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wright, Alexis, 1950- |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Queensland.
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Aboriginal Australians. |
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Australia. |
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Queensland. |
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Queensland -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Ng, Lynda, editor.
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Analysis of (work) Wright, Alexis, 1950-
Carpentaria.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Indigenous transnationalism. Artarmon, N.S.W. Giramondo Publishing Company, 2018 9781925336429 (OCoLC)999621729 |
| ISBN |
9781925818086 (electronic book) |
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192581808X (electronic book) |
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9781925818079 (electronic book) |
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1925818071 (electronic book) |
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9781925336429 |
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1925336425 |
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9781925336481 |
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1925336484 |
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9781925336498 |
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1925336492 |
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