![]() ![]() Indigenous authors, for instance, have reimagined historical encounters between Black and White. Yet amid the examination of Desperance, the isolated town, and its Aboriginal inhabitants, Wright created something fresh and unexpected on its publication in 2006 – an ultimately comic fiction of the Indigenous Australian experience.Ģ For fiction bringing focus to Aboriginal Australia generally portrays a world in conflict with or living uneasily in a White Australia that wields overwhelming power over their life. ![]() The novel presents readers with an Aboriginal world in conflict with a largely separate white world, the latter claiming superior status over the former, an unsurprising starting point. In her essay “On Writing Carpentaria ,” Wright states: “The contemporary Indigenous story world is epic,” and notes her great challenge: “how to understand the idea of Indigenous people living with the stories of all the times of this country, and how to write from this perspective” (2010, 3). Centered on an isolated town and region in the Far North, Carpentaria in its length and scope is an epic novel, perhaps the indigenous epic. ![]() 1 Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria stands out among novels focused on Aboriginal Australia. ![]()
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