Perception Revitalisation and Resistance in The Swan Book
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22063005 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Temiti Lehartel (RMIT Europe, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Commonwealth Essays and Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2270-0633 • E-ISSN: 2534-6695 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/ces.11355 |
| OpenAlex | W4225513410 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper investigates the potential of Alexis Wright’s novel The Swan Book to revitalise readers’ apprehension of place, and human entanglements with the non-human world. It ponders over how Wright calls readers to question ways of being and knowing. Finally, the paper explores how The Swan Book’s complexity and thus its resistance to readers’ perception demands an ethics of reading Indigenous literature
Aesthetics · Apprehension · Art · Art history · Cognitive psychology · Indigenous · Perception · Political science · Sociology · Wright · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · Law · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Modern American Literature Studies · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |