From Carpentaria to The Swan Book: finding a voice to narrate and resist the threat of extinction in Alexis Wright’s latest work
Alexis Wright is an acclaimed Australian author as well as a dedicated activist for indigenous sovereignty. In her most recent novel, The Swan Book (2013), Wright contextualises climate change and the extinction anxieties Western urbanized audiences are finding increasingly difficult to ignore withi...
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| description | Alexis Wright is an acclaimed Australian author as well as a dedicated activist for indigenous sovereignty. In her most recent novel, The Swan Book (2013), Wright contextualises climate change and the extinction anxieties Western urbanized audiences are finding increasingly difficult to ignore within the time frame of the European settlement of Australia, and the much larger time frame of Aboriginal presence on Country. Wright weaves together the memory of the 2007 Emergency Response in the Northern Territory and the perspective of a global climate crisis to provide a narrative that resists both the shortcuts of emergency action and the fascination with end times. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ea1285eae85941d592cbcce4befb2a7b2022-12-21T22:05:30ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182021-06-0118210.4000/erea.11860From Carpentaria to The Swan Book: finding a voice to narrate and resist the threat of extinction in Alexis Wright’s latest workAnne LE GUELLEC-MINELAlexis Wright is an acclaimed Australian author as well as a dedicated activist for indigenous sovereignty. In her most recent novel, The Swan Book (2013), Wright contextualises climate change and the extinction anxieties Western urbanized audiences are finding increasingly difficult to ignore within the time frame of the European settlement of Australia, and the much larger time frame of Aboriginal presence on Country. Wright weaves together the memory of the 2007 Emergency Response in the Northern Territory and the perspective of a global climate crisis to provide a narrative that resists both the shortcuts of emergency action and the fascination with end times.http://journals.openedition.org/erea/11860Northern Territory Interventioncounter-extinction narrativecustodianshipsovereigntyAnthropoceneclimate change novel |
| spellingShingle | Anne LE GUELLEC-MINEL From Carpentaria to The Swan Book: finding a voice to narrate and resist the threat of extinction in Alexis Wright’s latest work E-REA Northern Territory Intervention counter-extinction narrative custodianship sovereignty Anthropocene climate change novel |
| title | From Carpentaria to The Swan Book: finding a voice to narrate and resist the threat of extinction in Alexis Wright’s latest work |
| title_full | From Carpentaria to The Swan Book: finding a voice to narrate and resist the threat of extinction in Alexis Wright’s latest work |
| title_fullStr | From Carpentaria to The Swan Book: finding a voice to narrate and resist the threat of extinction in Alexis Wright’s latest work |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Carpentaria to The Swan Book: finding a voice to narrate and resist the threat of extinction in Alexis Wright’s latest work |
| title_short | From Carpentaria to The Swan Book: finding a voice to narrate and resist the threat of extinction in Alexis Wright’s latest work |
| title_sort | from carpentaria to the swan book finding a voice to narrate and resist the threat of extinction in alexis wright s latest work |
| topic | Northern Territory Intervention counter-extinction narrative custodianship sovereignty Anthropocene climate change novel |
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