44.2 | 2022
Alexis Wright
This special issue on Alexis Wright’s work includes ten academic articles, seven of which focus on Wright’s Carpentaria (2006), while three discuss the author’s two other novels – Plains of Promise (1997) and The Swan Book (2013) – and oeuvre as a whole. The issue also contains art and poetry by Australian Indigenous creative artists, as well as the reprint of a review of Carpentaria and a reflexive essay on translating Wright’s works into Chinese. From the centrality of Indigenous epistemologies in Wright’s oeuvre to her narrative creativity, representation of country, commitment to a sovereignty of the mind, humour, and refusal of genres, the various contributions to the special issue propose original analyses and approaches to better understand Wright’s nuanced, complex novels and non-fiction works.
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bodies of water [Full text]Artwork
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Walingera (Old Woman) [Full text]A poem
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Wiradjuri Dictionary [Full text]A poem
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The Creative Opportunity of Carpentaria [Full text]
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Wright’s Poetic Prose Epic [Full text]
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Reviews
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Alexis Wright, Carpentaria [Full text]