Agrégation Anglais 2022. Alexis Wright, Carpentaria: The Law of the Land, Estelle Castro-Koshy, Susan Barrett, Laura Singeot, Mylène Charon, Jessica De Largy, Eugenia Flynn, Victoria Grieve-Williams, Victoria Kuttainen, Mary Laughren

Alexis Wright, Carpentaria:
The Law of the Land. Winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in 2007, Carpentaria quickly established itself as a major work in Australia and on the international literary scene. Set south of the Gulf of Carpentaria, in a small, isolated town named Desperance, this masterful novel by Waanyi Aboriginal author Alexis Wright features Aboriginal characters confronting the colonization of their ancestral lands. Polyphonic and subversive, the work redefines time, space, and reality from an Aboriginal perspective. The descriptions of the Gulf of Carpentaria, as vibrant with life as it is with strength and voice, contribute to shaping a hypnotic writing that also speaks to ancestors. This book offers an analysis of the novel's key themes, the complex blend of genres, languages, and Aboriginal oral practices, as well as its political scope. To best prepare for the competition, this book offers literary, historical, linguistic, and anthropological approaches. This work is the result of close cooperation between Belin Education and the Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance, a public institution that provides training at all levels to more than 320,000 registered students worldwide.