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Retelling the Story of Untold History: A Study on Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria

Author(s) Dr. Minu Agnus O
Country India
Abstract History plays a significant role in preserving a nation’s cultural heritage and traditions and in shaping the collective identities of the nation’s citizens by incorporating a sense of continuity in them to identify themselves as a part of a broader historical narrative. According to some of the greatest historically significant personalities like E.H. Carr, Mark Twain, and Theodore Roosevelt, such evocative History is possible only by adding a few manipulative narratives that uphold the nation’s glory and deleting the bitter truth that distorts the nation’s glory. Such biased and fabricated historical narratives are termed as the Dominant historical narratives. As the self-explanatory term suggests, these narratives give precedence to the rulers’ perspectives and interpretations while sidelining or silencing the experiences of the Oppressed or the Subaltern. The Institutionalized Historical narratives have gained prominence, especially in Settler colonies like the United States, Canada, and Australia. In the context of Australia, its official history commenced only with the arrival of Europeans, which overlooked the existence of historical footprints of autochthonous populations.

This paper strives to excavate the suppressed historical narrative of the Aborigines by closely reading Alexis Wright’s award-winning novel Carpentaria. Through this study, an attempt is made to provide a counter-historical narrative that challenges the existing authoritative Dominant colonial narrative.
Keywords Dominant Historical Narratives, Aborigines, The Great Australian Silence, Relational Ontology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Ethnocentrism
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Published In Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2025
Published On 2025-06-15
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i03.48139
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9qqpj
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