Mimetic Mechanisms and Indigenous Vulnerability in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria

This article investigates Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria (2006) through the lens of the mimetic theory developed by René Girard, which I combined with Jean Price-Mars’ definition of “collective bovarism” and Umberto Eco’s narrative semiotics. In my close reading of the novel, I explore how the a...

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Main Author: Valérie Tosi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2022-09-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/18694