Open AccessDreaming of Others: Carpentaria and its Critics
Author(s) -
Alison Ravenscroft
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v16i2.1700
Subject(s) - carpentaria , wright , white (mutation) , creativity , publishing , meaning (existential) , project commissioning , sociology , aesthetics , media studies , law , literature , art , art history , philosophy , epistemology , political science , biochemistry , oceanography , chemistry , gene , geology
White critical efforts to make meaning of Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria have sought to anchor it to the big names among white Australian novelists. Such moves presume to make Wright indebted to these literary ‘masters’, assessing the significance of her text by its proximity to theirs. This article explores how in these critics’ eyes white creativity appears as if it were the original creativity and argues that such moves are a way of refuses the text’s unfamiliarity and strangeness to a white reader