Carpentaria

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811238045

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Carpentaria by Alexis Wright Pdf

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.

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439157848

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Carpentaria by Alexis Wright Pdf

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.

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416593102

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Carpentaria by Alexis Wright Pdf

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.

Author : William Landsborough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Australia
ISBN : NYPL:33433082442561

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Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria, in Search of Burke & Wills by William Landsborough Pdf

Map shows also the routes of Oxley, Sturt, Mitchell, Eyre, Leichhardt, Kennedy, Gregory, Babbage, Warburton, Stuart, Burke and Walker

Author : J. Kirby (Captain.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Australia
ISBN : BL:A0018020089

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Narrative of a Voyage from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria by J. Kirby (Captain.) Pdf

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501124785

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The Swan Book by Alexis Wright Pdf

Originally published: Australia: Giramondo, 2013.

Author : Lynda Ng
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781925818079

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Indigenous Transnationalism by Lynda Ng Pdf

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.

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780702267390

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Plains of Promise by Alexis Wright Pdf

In this brilliant debut novel, Alexis Wright evokes city and outback, deepening our understanding of human ambition and failure, and making the timeless heart and soul of this country pulsate on the page. Black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic's mission. With her political awareness raised by work with the city-based Aboriginal Coalition, Mary visits the old mission in the northern Gulf country, place of her mother's and grand-mother's suffering. Mary's return re-ignites community anxieties, and the Council of Elders again turn to their spirit world.

Author : John Bradley,Yanyuwa Families
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781742690926

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Singing Saltwater Country by John Bradley,Yanyuwa Families Pdf

John Bradley's compelling account of three decades living with the Yanyuwa people of the Gulf of Carpentaria and of how the elders revealed to him the ancient songlines of their Dreaming.

Author : John Bayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Carpentaria (Diocese)
ISBN : UCAL:$B784826

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Cross Over Carpentaria by John Bayton Pdf

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.

Author : William Landsborough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCAL:$B304894

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Exploration of Australia from Carpentaria to Melbourne, with Special Reference to the Settlement of Available Country by William Landsborough Pdf

Author : Richard Charlton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Percussion and guitar music
ISBN : UCSC:32106017663417

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Carpentaria by Richard Charlton Pdf

Author : J. Smart,Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics
Publisher : Australian Government Publishing Service
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032894763

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The Mesozoic Carpentaria Basin and the Cainozoic Karumba Basin, North Queensland by J. Smart,Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics Pdf

Author : George BOURNE (Australian Traveller.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026718182

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Bourne's Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria, in Search of Burke and Wills by George BOURNE (Australian Traveller.) Pdf

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 0369378660

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Grog War by Alexis Wright Pdf

A revamped Magabala classic by Miles Franklin award-winning author Alexis Wright.First published in 1997, this vivid portrayal of how the Indigenous people of Tennant Creek worked together to achieve community-wide alcohol restrictions, is more relevant now than ever. A searing account of what transpired over 25 years ago, Grog War provides historical context and Indigenous-led solutions to the challenges still confronting communities and towns throughout Australia.In the '90s, Wright was commissioned by the Julalikari Council of Tennant Creek to write Grog War, to document how Aboriginal Elders and leaders dealt with the invasion of grog on Warumungu land and the enormous struggle it took to introduce simple alcohol restrictions in the town. Grog War traces an Indigenous-led movement of self-determination that shifted the blame from Aboriginal people for public drunkenness to looking at the way grog is pushed and sold, in turn challenging the town and government to share responsibility.Aboriginal Elders and community advisors in Tennant Creek fought for years to put alcohol restrictions in place and they are still fighting. Their courage and tenacity is an inspiration for other towns in Australia who are battling against the tide of alcohol abuse and resistance from licencees and the broader community.Grog War is essential reading for all those working towards and interested in Indigenous self-determination, for community leaders, legislators, health workers, social workers - and for our young people - so that all Australian children might grow up with a better understanding of what Indigenous people have fought hard to achieve in this country.