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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Translocal Temporalities in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria
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'In her 2006 novel Carpentaria, Alexis Wright asserts the importance of local history and traditional customs overt he imposed metanarrative of the nation. Wright begins the novel by stressing the serious consideration that must be given to the unofficial, often unrecorded local narratives which persist and operate below the level of national consciousness...'(From author's introduction)

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