Alexis Wright

Title

Alexis Wright

Birth Date

1950

Birthplace

Waanji,

Primary Sources

Wright, A. (2019). A journey in writing place. Meanjin. Accessed August 18, 2022.
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/what-happens-when-you-tell-somebody-elses-story/

Wright, A. (2019). Telling the untold stories: Alexis Wright on censorship. Overland. Accessed August 18, 2022.
https://overland.org.au/2019/02/telling-the-untold-stories-alexis-wright-on-censorship/

Wright, A (2018) Hey Ancestor. Indigenous X. Accessed August 18, 2022.
https://indigenousx.com.au/alexis-wright-hey-ancestor/#.WoP5zq6Wapo


Wright, A. (2016). What happens when you tell somebody else’s stories?. Meanjin. Accessed August 18, 2022.
https://meanjin.com.au/essays/what-happens-when-you-tell-somebody-elses-story/

Wright, A. (2013) The Swan Book. Artarmon, NSW: Giramondo.

Wright, A. (2008) Grog War, Broome, W.A.: Magabala Books.

Secondary Sources

Birch, T (2023) Sovereignty of imagination: Alexis Wright, 23 April, The Monthly, Art and Letters.

Neave, L. (2022). Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) as ‘crisis fiction.’ Textual Practice, 36(9), 1559–1577.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2021.1977379

Vernay, J.-F., & Wright, A. (2004). An interview with Alexis Wright. Antipodes, 18(2), 119–122.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41957373

Wright, A (1998)(Ed) for the Central Land Council. Take power, like this old man here: an anthology of writings celebrating twenty years of land rights in Central Australia, 1977-1997. Alice Springs, N.T. : IAD Press.

Extra Resources

Teachings from Australian First Nations author Alexis Wright, Jun 12, 2020, Global Landscapes Forum, GLF, Accessed Aug 19, 2022.
https://youtu.be/zPyArkSi-VQ?t=122


Alexis Wright in conversation with Ivor Indyk. April 13, 2018,The Writing and Society Research Centre. YouTube. Accessed Feb 2 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Xvut04Bbo

Collection

Citation

“Alexis Wright,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed August 7, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/110.

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