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Alexis Wright's new novel Praiseworthy explores Aboriginal sovereignty in the shadow of the anthropocene

  • Written by: Jane Gleeson-White, Adjunct Lecturer, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
Alexis Wright's new novel Praiseworthy explores Aboriginal sovereignty in the shadow of the anthropoceneGrass Yellow Butterfly, Australian Butterfly Sanctuary, Kuranda, Queensland.David Clode/Unsplash

Praiseworthy is Alexis Wright’s most formidable act of imaginative synthesis yet. It is simultaneously a hero’s journey for an age of global warming, a devastating story of young love caught between two laws, and an extended elegy and ode to...

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