Fabulation: Toward untimely and inhuman life in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book

This paper brings together Alexis Wright's novel, The Swan Book (2013a, Artamon, NSW: Giramondo) and the concept of fabulation from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's philosophical approach to literature. I employ their approach to explore the complex relation to history and language that Wright's highly poetic novel illustrates: a relation to untimely and inhuman life that suggests other possibilities for living within the body politic than are currently available.