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Notes
1 Gunew, “Uncomfortable Cosmopolitanism: Incorporating Multiculturalisms,” Migrating Concepts: Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Conviviality Across the Asia Pacific. Journal for Intercultural Studies, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore February 23–24, 2018.
2 Interview on ‘The Refusal of Time’, Louisiana, April, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX_Qe2HKuEA
3 Wright (Citation2006). For those unfamiliar with her text here is a summary from the publisher’s website:
an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland, from where her people come. The novel’s portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, farce and politics. The novel teems with extraordinary characters […] figures that stride like giants across this storm-swept world.