In the past few years, interesting new developments are observable in Indigenous women’s writing in the novel form—notably with the work of Alexis Wright and Vivienne Cleven. Their fiction is concerned with history as has been the predominantly auto/biographical writing of Indigenous women since Monica Clare’s Karobran, through Glenyse Ward, Sally Morgan, Ruby Langford Ginibi, Doris Pilkington and many others, but Cleven’s Her Sister’s Eye and Wright’s Carpentaria adopt new approaches to its representation within a postcoloniality recently rendered more problematic by the Australian Federal government intervention in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.