The Spell of Place in Carpentaria

The following paper allows us to study the links between place and Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime or Dreaming. Such an approach foregrounds need re-envision our world as in permanent co-presence of human other-than-human, thus necessity reassess ultimately refuse monological nationalist foundation narratives replace them with more inclusive ones reflect fully what sustainable relationships nature society at large really consist in.Carpentaria offers a very original revisiting Gothic spectral motifs disappearance disorientation so prevalent non-Indigenous literature – replacing instead acceptance being haunted “possessed”. Possession Carpentaria is about revitalised by place, work anthropologists, poets thinkers like Glowcewski, Glissant Abram (The Spell Sensuous), have amply demonstrated. In Wright’s novel, notion possession possessed river country takes on unique urgency, foregrounding importance stories, “stories deep knowledge”, not only for themselves, but precisely because such law stories can major lasting impact ideological, economic social choices also point new or, be accurate, rediscovered epistemologies.