Alexis Wright

Focusing on Wright’s representation of the land, the river and the cyclone, the essay attempts to demonstrate ‘how playfully, flexibly and experimentally Wright moblilises a…

The article discusses the polarised response to Wright’s work. The author argues that it is Wright’s ‘blend of realism and the visionary that marks the…

Phillip Mead discusses ‘two contemporary extensions of the discourse about the social and economic reality of extractive industries on the Indigenous plane of the literary…

Discusses Wright's 'foregrounding of whiteness as an object of critique'. 'Carpentaria breaks new ground by making whiteness one of its main subjects and by its…

‘Reading is a visual practice. It always involves a scene. What scenes do white readers of Plains of Promise gaze upon as they hold its…

This article proposes a reading of Alexis Wright’s epic novel Carpentaria that focuses on the mine and its impacts as central to any understanding of…

What constitutes Irish-Australian literature – if such a category exists – is by no means clear. This essay seeks to map the field and identify…

This article considers some of the reasons why Irish-Australian literature has not been a significant trajectory within Australian literary studies and what it might offer…