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Carpentaria
Author | : Alexis Wright |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2024-02-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811238045 |
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Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic Carpentaria: “a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel—stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism” (The Australian) Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centers on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, on the one hand, and with the white officials of Uptown and the nearby rapacious, ecologically disastrous Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s masterful novel teems with extraordinary characters—the outcast savior Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the garbage dump and the fish-embalming king of time: Angel Day and Normal Phantom—who stand like giants in a storm-swept world. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. She has a narrative gift for remaking reality itself, altering along her way, as if casually, the perception of what a novel can do with the inside of the reader's mind. Carpentaria is “an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel” (Wall Street Journal) that is not to be missed.
Carpentaria
Author | : Alexis Wright |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2010-05-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781439157848 |
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Steeped in myth and magical realism, this story exposes the heartbreaking realities of Aboriginal life as indigenous tribes fight to protect their natural resources, sacred sites, and above all, their people.
Carpentaria
Author | : Alexis Wright |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2009-04-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781416593102 |
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A tale inspired by the plight of the Australian Aborigines follows a clash between a powerful family, tribe leaders, and mobsters in a sparsely populated northern Queensland town, a conflict marked by the machinations of a religious zealot, a murderous politician, and an activist.
Journal of Landsborough s Expedition from Carpentaria in Search of Burke Wills
Author | : William Landsborough |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433082442561 |
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Map shows also the routes of Oxley, Sturt, Mitchell, Eyre, Leichhardt, Kennedy, Gregory, Babbage, Warburton, Stuart, Burke and Walker
Narrative of a Voyage from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria
Author | : J. Kirby (Captain.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : BL:A0018020089 |
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The Swan Book
Author | : Alexis Wright |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-06-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781501124785 |
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Originally published: Australia: Giramondo, 2013.
Indigenous Transnationalism
Author | : Lynda Ng |
Publsiher | : Giramondo Publishing |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781925818079 |
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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. 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 which a transnational approach can highlight resistance to, or subversion of, national prejudices.
Singing Saltwater Country
Author | : John Bradley,Yanyuwa Families |
Publsiher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781742690926 |
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John Bradley's compelling account of three decades living with the Yanyuwa people of the Gulf of Carpentaria and of how the elders revealed to him the ancient songlines of their Dreaming.