“Plenty of business going on”

Australian Aboriginal author Alexis Wright contends that place is not separate and isolated unto itself but instead part of a whole environment. While Carpentaria Country both end beginning, then, where character reader can find hope in the underlying bond between story, person, place, it also be explored as national, extended literary place. Structurally bracketed by cyclones, story about land imagination which prophet emerges from cyclone to warn town’s hypocrisy offer chance for cultures come together. When he rejected, scapegoated, exiled, murdered, second catastrophically destroys town, presenting true sense apocalypse an opportunity change renewal people With this use apocalyptic trope, Wright’s novel situates within national context: sub-genre climate literature trope destruction, epiphany, plays major role relationships society, community. As one group works context sub-genre, seen only powerfully individual work spiritual well physical experience bring together conscious with unconscious landscape mind we seek understand through our