An Indigenous Grand Narrative Voice: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria as Indigenous Epistemology

Through applying an Indigenous paradigmatic approach to reading Australian Indigenous literature, a new conceptualisation of Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria emerges, one that argues the novel is a practice in Indigenous epistemologies (ways of knowing). The form of the novel is considered, conceptualisi...

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Publicat a:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces,
Autor principal: Flynn, Eugenia
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2022
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Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:Through applying an Indigenous paradigmatic approach to reading Australian Indigenous literature, a new conceptualisation of Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria emerges, one that argues the novel is a practice in Indigenous epistemologies (ways of knowing). The form of the novel is considered, conceptualising Carpentaria’s Indigenous grand narrative voice as a praxis in Indigenous knowledge production, maintenance, and dissemination. This argument is supported by the configuration of Carpentaria’s content – the stories told within the text – as Indigenous knowledges.