Volume II Special Issue I January 2022

Name of Author : Ms. M B Abika Adline Praicy

Title of the paper : Capitalization of Aboriginal lands – An Eco Critical Study of the Native Australian Fiction Carpentaria

Abstract: Alexis Wright, a successful contemporary Fictional writer of Australia writes about the modernization and degradation of Australian Indigenous land in her novel CAPENTARIA. She describes the Indigenous culture, land, and also the native people of Australia. She points out how the European settlers marginalise the indigenous tribes and exploit the Indigenous cosmology. The novel further presents the cultural atmosphere and Indigenous inhabitants of Gulf country through her imaginative town called Desperance. This study deconstructs the Eurocentric attitude of colonizers with nature. It also examines the booming business of Europeans and their failure in living their lives in harmony with nature. In this novel, the Indigenous characters struggle to retrieve their cultural identity in their own land. Though the Europeans destructs the Aboriginal land, natures realm dismantles human minds by its power.

Keywords : Carpentaria, Ecocentric, Industrialization, Destruction, Spiritual Ecology

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Page Number : 42-45