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'Alexis Wright is a master storyteller. The power of her writing derives not only from her capacity to conjure words into spellbinding tales but from the troubled thinking she brings to bear on narrative forms themselves. Wright has an incisive grasp of storytelling as a primary vehicle of political power and its potential transformation. Who has the right to tell a story? This question, so simple on the face of it, simultaneously invokes the ethical basis of Aboriginal society as well as the settler-colonial hubris that legitimises dispossession and locates authority elsewhere.' (Introduction)
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Epigraph: I knew the style and intent of the national narrative would always be one of the greatest challenges I would have as a writer… The way that this country shapes its people would constantly be on my mind while trying to tell stories of what we are, how we see the world, what our traditional ground means to us, and our desires and ambitions. The cloud is always present… We have been boxed in by the Australian psyche… Take your pick. All the statistics are linked to the national narrative, to story-making, to the way that stories are told, to keep the status quo in place. —Alexis Wright, ‘What Happens When You Tell Somebody Else’s Story’, Meanjin, 2016
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