Delineating Ecoethics in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria and The Swan Book

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ID20247930
AutoresMinimol P G, P G Minimol (National Institute of Technology Calicut, autor correspondente), Preeti Navaneeth (0000-0002-6141-6259, National Institute of Technology Calicut)
Ano2025
Volume14
Fascículo4
Páginas81
Data de publicação2025-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/h14040081
OpenAlexW4409097086
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas18

Literary works of contemporary Australian Aboriginal writers are widely read for their engagement with expressions of resilience and resistance against colonial supremacy. But these works have a greater significance in modern times, as they carry forward the Aboriginal cultural traditions of caring for the country (an Aboriginal concept that comprises people, their culture, and all living and non-living entities in a place, including the land) and in vocalising the concerns that arise from grief for the loss of the natural environment. This paper investigates how Alexis Wright, in her postmillennial novels Carpentaria (2006) and The Swan Book (2013), redefines dominant ethical and aesthetic frameworks and tries to delineate ecoethics in these novels through a critical analysis of the representation of relationality and interconnectedness between Aboriginal people and their natural environment. By exploring the Aboriginal belief system as represented in the texts and its role in shaping Aboriginal environmental values, this paper argues that Carpentaria and The Swan Book embody ecoethics and offer a reimagining of deep ecological perspectives in contemporary literature

Art · Art history · Carpentaria · Wright · American Environmental and Regional History · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Geology · Oceanography

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