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Carpentaria / Alexis Wright.

Carpentaria / Alexis Wright.
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ISBN 1920882170 (pbk.) :
9781920882174 (pbk.)
Author Wright, Alexis, 1950-
Title Carpentaria / Alexis Wright.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Artarmon, N.S.W. : Giramondo, 2006.
Description 519 pages ; 24 cm.
Note "Published ... for the Writing & Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney"--T.p. verso.
Summary 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.
Subjects Land tenure Australia Queensland
Aboriginal Australian literature
Storytelling in literature
Australian fiction -- 21st century
Aboriginal Australians -- Folklore -- Fiction
Land tenure -- Queensland -- Fiction
Carpentaria, Gulf of (N.T. and Qld.)
Queensland -- History -- Fiction
Other Corporate Bodies University of Western Sydney. Writing & Society Research Group
Call number 2016.665
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