6 | 2022 - Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria: “A self-governing literature that belongs to place” – Motifs

Anne Le Guellec-Minel
Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria

A self-governing literature that belongs to place
I - Performing sovereignty through literature
- Geoff Rodoreda
  Sovereignty in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria (2006)
II - Embracing great and small: of dust, cyclones and songs in Carpentaria
- Samuel J. Cox
  The Dust of Carpentaria
- Chrystopher J. Spicer
  “Plenty of business going on”
  
  The Apocalyptic Cyclones of Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria as Trope of Real, Imagined, and Spiritual Australian Place
- Adrian Grafe
  “Heartbeat”, or singing the novel afresh
  
  The role of popular song and songsters in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
III - Narrative power and responsibility
- Christine Vandamme
  The Spell of Place in Carpentaria
- Meera Atkinson
  Epic, Trauma, and Affective Practice in Carpentaria
- Margherita Zanoletti et Andrea Sirotti
  Translating Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
  
  An Interview with Italian Co-Translator Andrea Sirotti