Fabulation: Toward Untimely and Inhuman Life in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book |
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| Authors: | Linda Daley |
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| Institution: | School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |
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| Abstract: | This paper brings together Alexis Wright’s novel, The Swan Book 2013a, Artamon, NSW: Giramondo] and the concept of fabulation from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s philosophical approach to literature. I employ their approach to explore the complex relation to history and language that Wright’s highly poetic novel illustrates: a relation to untimely and inhuman life that suggests other possibilities for living within the body politic than are currently available. |
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