RT Book, Section
T1 Competition and Cooperation in Peter Carey’s A Long Way from Home
A1 Arizti Martín, Bárbara
K1 Indigenous Australians
K1 Transmodernity
K1 Irena Ateljevic
K1 Riane Eisler
AB This paper studies competition and cooperation in A Long Way from Home within transmodernity, the emerging socio-cultural paradigm. It argues that, despite the heavy focus on competition favoured by the car rally the protagonists enter, the novel encourages cooperation. This ties in with the recovery by transmodern scholar Irena Ateljevic of Riane Eisler’s The Chalice and the Blade, which seminally put forward the “partnership” and “domination” models structuring human evolution. The analysis backs Eisler and Ateljevic’s claim that contemporary times, in the midst of unprecedented turbulence, are progressively veering towards a partnership system based on caring behaviours, empathy and cooperation. Two salient traits of transmodernity are studied: attention to the commonalities of existence and the turn to pre-modern forms of knowledge. In this light, the novel succeeds in avoiding postmodern competing identitarianism while it escapes modernity’s universalising tendencies in revaluing Indigenous lore.
PB Enredars Publicaciones / UPO
SN 978-84-09-71143-7
YR 2025
FD 2025-07-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/24425
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/24425
LA en
NO Departamento de Filología y Traducción
DS RIO
RD May 22, 2026