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Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria Alexis Wright的Carpentaria

Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria: “A self-governing literature that belongs to place” Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.56078/motifs.786

Anne Le Guellec-Minel

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The Spell of Place in Carpentaria 卡奔塔利亚的地方咒语

Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria: “A self-governing literature that belongs to place” Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.56078/motifs.853

C. Vandamme

{"title":"The Spell of Place in Carpentaria","authors":"C. Vandamme","doi":"10.56078/motifs.853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56078/motifs.853","url":null,"abstract":"The following paper allows us to study the links between place and Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime or Dreaming. Such an approach foregrounds the need to re-envision our world as in permanent co-presence of human and other-than-human, and thus the necessity to reassess and ultimately refuse monological nationalist foundation narratives and replace them with more inclusive ones to reflect more fully what sustainable relationships in nature and society at large really consist in.Carpentaria offers a very original revisiting of the Gothic spectral motifs of disappearance and disorientation so prevalent in non-Indigenous Australian literature – replacing them instead with an acceptance of being haunted and “possessed”. Possession in Carpentaria is about being revitalised by place, as the work of anthropologists, poets and thinkers like Glowcewski, Glissant or Abram (The Spell of The Sensuous), have amply demonstrated. In Wright’s novel, the notion of possession and being possessed by the river country takes on a unique urgency, thus foregrounding the importance of stories, “stories of deep knowledge”, not only for themselves, but precisely because such law stories can have a major and lasting impact on ideological, economic and social choices but also point to new or, to be more accurate, rediscovered epistemologies.","PeriodicalId":227211,"journal":{"name":"Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria: “A self-governing literature that belongs to place”","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132818183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Translating Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria 翻译亚历克西斯·赖特的《卡pentaria》

Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria: “A self-governing literature that belongs to place” Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.56078/motifs.876

Margherita Zanoletti, Andrea Sirotti

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“Plenty of business going on” “有很多生意要做。”

Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria: “A self-governing literature that belongs to place” Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.56078/motifs.839

Chrystopher Spicer

{"title":"“Plenty of business going on”","authors":"Chrystopher Spicer","doi":"10.56078/motifs.839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.56078/motifs.839","url":null,"abstract":"Australian Aboriginal author Alexis Wright contends that place is not separate and isolated unto itself but is instead part of a whole environment. While Carpentaria Country is a place of both end and beginning, then, where character and reader can find hope in the underlying bond between story, person, and place, it can also be explored as part of the national, extended literary place. Structurally bracketed by cyclones, Carpentaria is a story about hope in a land of the imagination in which a prophet emerges from a cyclone to warn of a town’s hypocrisy and to offer a chance for cultures to come together. When he is rejected, scapegoated, exiled, and murdered, a second cyclone catastrophically destroys the town, presenting in the true sense of apocalypse an opportunity for change and renewal of people and place. With this use of the apocalyptic cyclone trope, Wright’s novel situates within a national literary context: the sub-genre of Australian climate literature in which the apocalyptic cyclone as a trope of destruction, epiphany, and renewal plays a major role in relationships between Australian society, place, and community. As one of a group of Australian literary works within the context of that sub-genre, Carpentaria can be seen not only as a powerfully individual work of literature but also as one in which the spiritual as well as the physical experience of the Australian literary cyclone can bring together the conscious with the unconscious in the landscape of the mind as we seek to understand through story our extended relationships with place.","PeriodicalId":227211,"journal":{"name":"Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria: “A self-governing literature that belongs to place”","volume":"48 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125595395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sovereignty in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria (2006) 亚历克西斯·赖特的《卡奔塔利亚》中的主权(2006)

Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria: “A self-governing literature that belongs to place” Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.56078/motifs.788

G. Rodoreda

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The Dust of Carpentaria 卡奔塔利亚之尘

Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria: “A self-governing literature that belongs to place” Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.56078/motifs.806

S. Cox

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Epic, Trauma, and Affective Practice in Carpentaria 卡奔塔利亚的史诗、创伤和情感实践

Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria: “A self-governing literature that belongs to place” Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.56078/motifs.866

Meera Atkinson

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“Heartbeat”, or singing the novel afresh 《心跳》，或者重新唱一遍小说

Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria: “A self-governing literature that belongs to place” Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.56078/motifs.821

Adrian Grafe

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