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Carpentaria
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Author : Alexis Wright
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2024-02-06
Carpentaria written by Alexis Wright and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with Fiction categories.
Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic Carpentaria: “a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel—stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism” (The Australian) Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centers on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, on the one hand, and with the white officials of Uptown and the nearby rapacious, ecologically disastrous Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s masterful novel teems with extraordinary characters—the outcast savior Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the garbage dump and the fish-embalming king of time: Angel Day and Normal Phantom—who stand like giants in a storm-swept world. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. She has a narrative gift for remaking reality itself, altering along her way, as if casually, the perception of what a novel can do with the inside of the reader's mind. Carpentaria is “an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel” (Wall Street Journal) that is not to be missed.
Carpentaria
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Author : Alexis Wright
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-05-18
Carpentaria written by Alexis Wright and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-18 with Fiction categories.
Steeped in myth and magical realism, this story exposes the heartbreaking realities of Aboriginal life as indigenous tribes fight to protect their natural resources, sacred sites, and above all, their people.
Carpentaria
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Author : Alexis Wright
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-04-07
Carpentaria written by Alexis Wright and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-07 with Fiction categories.
A tale inspired by the plight of the Australian Aborigines follows a clash between a powerful family, tribe leaders, and mobsters in a sparsely populated northern Queensland town, a conflict marked by the machinations of a religious zealot, a murderous politician, and an activist.
Journal Of Landsborough S Expedition From Carpentaria In Search Of Burke Wills
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Author : William Landsborough
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862
Journal Of Landsborough S Expedition From Carpentaria In Search Of Burke Wills written by William Landsborough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with Australia categories.
Map shows also the routes of Oxley, Sturt, Mitchell, Eyre, Leichhardt, Kennedy, Gregory, Babbage, Warburton, Stuart, Burke and Walker
Narrative Of A Voyage From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpentaria
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Author : J. Kirby (Captain.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862
Narrative Of A Voyage From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpentaria written by J. Kirby (Captain.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with Australia categories.
Indigenous Transnationalism
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Author : Lynda Ng
language : en
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-01
Indigenous Transnationalism written by Lynda Ng and has been published by Giramondo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
After Aboriginal author Alexis Wright’s novel, Carpentaria, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007, it rapidly achieved the status of a classic. The novel is widely read and studied in Australia, and overseas, and valued for its imaginative power, its epic reach, and its remarkable use of language. Indigenous Transnationalism brings together eight essays by critics from seven different countries, each analysing Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria from a distinct national perspective. Taken together, these diverse voices highlight themes from the novel that resonate across cultures and continents: the primacy of the land; the battles that indigenous peoples fight for their language, culture and sovereignty; a concern with the environment and the effects of pollution. At the same time, by comparing the Aboriginal experience to that of other indigenous peoples, they demonstrate the means by which a transnational approach can highlight resistance to, or subversion of, national prejudices.
Cross Over Carpentaria
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Author : John Bayton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Cross Over Carpentaria written by John Bayton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Carpentaria (Diocese) categories.
p.17-22; Contacts with and comments on the Aboriginals of Torres Strait by the early explorers; p.23-25; spiritual beliefs; Laws of morality and behaviour; p.30; description of the Aborigines of Cape York by the Resident Magistrate 1866; p.33; first missionary contact with Cape York Aborigines 1867 - handicapped by great timidity; p.36-7; bad relations with police; p.41; origin of the Australian Aborigine; p.50; religious beliefs of Torres Strait Islanders - totems; p.86; church and state policy towards Aborigines 1900; p.90-93; establishment of Mitchell River Mission - native reaction; p.104-5; Roper River Mission established 1908 - problems of Aborigines walkabout; p.123; character of Aborigine compared with Papuan; p.140; improvement in the Aborigines at Roper River Mission; p.143; progress at Mitchell River; p.151; Koboberra tribe - warlike - unsympathetic to mission overtures; p.152; J.W. Chapmans contribution to Aboriginal welfare at Mitchell River Mission; p.176; Nunggubuyu tribe - coroboree grounds - sacred poles; Tribe moved to Rose River mission founded; p.197-200; statement of Government assimilation policy by Minister for Territories; Brief histories of other missions in area.
Submerged Coral Reefs And Benthic Habitats Of The Southern Gulf Of Carpentaria
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Submerged Coral Reefs And Benthic Habitats Of The Southern Gulf Of Carpentaria written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Benthos categories.
The Swan Book
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Author : Alexis Wright
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-06-28
The Swan Book written by Alexis Wright and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-28 with Fiction categories.
Originally published: Australia: Giramondo, 2013.
Carpentaria
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Author : Alexis Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Carpentaria written by Alexis Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Aboriginal Australians categories.
Centred on the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, a township shaped by cyclones, monsoonal floods and a river that spurns human endeavour with its incomprehensible tides, it tells the story of the powerful Phantom family. Led by Norm Phantom, the great fish-embalming king of time, legendary storyteller, suspected murderer and leader of the Pricklebush people, the Phantoms battle to retain sovereignty over a country where "legends and ghosts live side by side". Sovereignty depends on stories. The official version of the region's history makes no mention of the Phantoms or the Great War of the Dump that burst the Pricklebush people apart and set Eastsider against Westsider. Nor does it mention the old tribal tensions that resurfaced and the search for lost ancestral stories that lay claim to traditional ownership.