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In this essay, Hall argues that the floating island of rubbish in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria can be seen as a Foucauldian heterotopia.

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  • Epigraph: 'And I'm holding that long turtle spear, and I feel I'm close now to where it must be' - Neil Murray, My Island Home

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    y separately published work icon Long Paddock Islands and Archipelagos vol. 72 no. 3 2012 6038491 2012 periodical issue 2012
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