New Zealand Literature

Author : Paloma Fresno-Calleja,Janet M. Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000702972

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Beyond Borders by Paloma Fresno-Calleja,Janet M. Wilson Pdf

This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global marketplace. Combining postcolonial and world literature methodologies contributors chart the global relocation of national culture from the nineteenth century to the present exploring what "New Zealand literature" means in different creative, teaching, and publishing contexts. They identify ongoing global entanglements with local identities and tensions between national and post-national literary discourses, considering Aotearoa New Zealand’s history as a white settler colony and its status as a bicultural nation and a key player in the Asia-Pacific region, active on the global stage. Topics and authors include: Stefanie Herades on colonial New Zealand literature and the global marketplace; Claudia Marquis on David Hare’s "Aotearoa series" as exotic reading for adolescents; Paloma Fresno-Calleja on the exoticizing landscape novels of Sarah Lark; James Wenley on Indian Ink Theatre company as hybrid export; Janet M. Wilson on the globalization of the New Zealand short story; Chris Prentice on pedagogic articulations of New Zealand literature; Leonie John on the challenges of teaching Māori literature in Germany; Dieter Riemenschneider on New Zealand literature at the Frankfurt Book Fair; Paula Morris on Commonwealth writers and the Booker Prize; Selina Tusitala Marsh on contemporary Pasifika poetry; and Chris Miller on the afterlife of Allen Curnow. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Author : Roger Robinson,Nelson Wattie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020196338

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The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature by Roger Robinson,Nelson Wattie Pdf

'The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature' contains more than 1500 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, novels, plays, poetry, journals, periodicals, anthologies, literary movements and professional organizations.

Author : Terry Sturm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022964741

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The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English by Terry Sturm Pdf

This is the most comprehensive history of New Zealand literature to have been published. It offers chapters on the novel, poetry, and on the short story, which have been the staple of earlier histories and surveys, as well as sections on drama, non-ficiton, children's literature, popular literature, and the history of publishing, patronage and literary magazines. In this major new edition, material is provided on the period from 1986-1996, and a new chapter has been included on literary scholarship, criticism, and theory.

Author : Nicholas Birns,Nicole Moore,Sarah Shieff
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603292894

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Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature by Nicholas Birns,Nicole Moore,Sarah Shieff Pdf

Australia and New Zealand, united geographically by their location in the South Pacific and linguistically by their English-speaking inhabitants, share the strong bond of hope for cultural diversity and social equality--one often challenged by history, starting with the appropriation of land from their Indigenous peoples. This volume explores significant themes and topics in Australian and New Zealand literature. In their introduction, the editors address both the commonalities and differences between the two nations' literatures by considering literary and historical contexts and by making nuanced connections between the global and the local. Contributors share their experiences teaching literature on the iconic landscape and ecological fragility; stories and perspectives of convicts, migrants, and refugees; and Maori and Aboriginal texts, which add much to the transnational turn. This volume presents a wide array of writers--such as Patrick White, Janet Frame, Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, Witi Ihimaera, Christina Stead, Allen Curnow, David Malouf, Les Murray, Nam Le, Miles Franklin, Kim Scott, and Sally Morgan--and offers pedagogical tools for teachers to consider issues that include colonial and racial violence, performance traditions, and the role of language and translation. Concluding with a list of resources, this volume serves to support new and experienced instructors alike.

Author : William J. Schafer
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824820169

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Mapping the Godzone by William J. Schafer Pdf

William Schafer read, and dreamed, about New Zealand before his first visit in 1995. Mapping the Godzone grew out of that visit and his attempts, as an American, to focus his impressions of New Zealand's literary culture and relate its mental and moral landscape to that of the United States. Through an idiosyncratic selection of contemporary novels and films, Schafer opens up a complex and compelling world. Readers will encounter internationally celebrated writers such as Witi Ihimaera, Fiona Kidman, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, Maurice Shadbolt, Albert Wendt, Alan Duff, Keri Hulme, Patricia Grace, Ian Wedde, and Janet Frame; and the emerging New Zealand film industry and the handful of directors (among them Jane Campion, Peter Jackson, Vincent Ward, and Geoff Murphy) who have created a vital cinema renaissance since the 1970s. Stimulating and highly original in its approach, Mapping the Godzone is an eloquent reflection on a remote island nation.

Author : Mark Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : 1107448891

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A History of New Zealand Literature by Mark Williams Pdf

A History of New Zealand Literature traces the genealogy of New Zealand literature from its first imaginings by Europeans in the eighteenth century. Beginning with a comprehensive introduction that charts the growth of, and challenges to, a nationalist literary tradition, the essays in this History illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of New Zealand literature, surveying the multilayered verse, fiction and drama of such diverse writers as Katherine Mansfield, Allen Curnow, Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism, biculturalism and multiculturalism in New Zealand literature. A History of New Zealand Literature is of pivotal importance to the development of New Zealand writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.

Author : Jane Stafford,Mark Williams
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0864735227

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Maoriland by Jane Stafford,Mark Williams Pdf

This critical examination of Maoriland literature argues against the former glib dismissals of the period and focuses instead on the era’s importance in the birth of a distinct New Zealand style of writing. By connecting the literature and other cultural forms of Maoriland to the larger realms of empire and contemporary criticism, this study explores the roots of the country’s modern feminism, progressive social legislation, and bicultural relations.

Author : Jane Stafford,Mark Williams
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 2218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781775581666

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The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature by Jane Stafford,Mark Williams Pdf

From the earliest records of exploration and encounter to the globalized, multicultural present, this compilation features New Zealand's major writing, from Polynesian mythology to the Yates' Garden Guide, from Allen Curnow to Alice Tawhai, and from Wiremu Te Rangikaheke's letters to Katherine Mansfield's notebooks. Including fiction, nonfiction, letters, speeches, novels, stories, comics, and songs, this imaginative selection provides new paths into New Zealand writing and culture.

Author : Jennifer Lawn
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739177426

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Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008 by Jennifer Lawn Pdf

Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the reprise of market-based economics has impacted the forms of social exchange and cultural life in a settler-colonial context. Jennifer Lawn proposes that postcolonial literary studies needs to take more account of the way in which the new configuration of dominance—increasingly gathered under the umbrella term of neoliberalism—works in concert with, rather than against, assertions of cultural identity on the part of historically subordinated groups. The pre-eminence of new right economics over the past three decades has raised a conundrum for writers on the left: while neoliberalism has tended to undermine collective social action, it has also fostered expressions of identity in the form of “cultural capital” which minority communities can exploit for economic gain. Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008 advocates for reading practices that balance the appeals of culture against the structuring forces of social class and the commodification of identity, while not losing sight of the specific aesthetic qualities of literary fiction. Jennifer Lawn demonstrates the value of this approach in a wide-ranging account of New Zealand literature. Movements towards decolonization in a bicultural society are read within the context of a marginal post-industrial economy that was, in many ways, a test case for radical free market reforms. Through a study of politically-engaged writing across a range of genres by both Māori and non-Māori authors, the New Zealand experience shows in high relief the twinned dynamics of a decline in the ideal of social egalitarianism and the corresponding rise of the idea of culture as a transformative force in economic and civic life, tending ultimately to blur the distinction between these spheres altogether. This work includes well-recognized authors such as Alan Duff, Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Eleanor Catton and Maurice Gee, but also introduces a number of non-canonical or emergent writers whose work is discussed in detail for the first time in this volume. The result is a distinctive literary history of a turbulent period of social and economic change.

Author : Eric Hall McCormick
Publisher : London, Oxford U. P
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : New Zealand literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3541545

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New Zealand Literature by Eric Hall McCormick Pdf

Offprints of articles by Janet Wilson on Janet Frame and myths of Aotearoa.

Author : Lawrence Jones
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0864734557

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Picking Up the Traces by Lawrence Jones Pdf

The story of the generation of New Zealand writers who came of age in the 1930s and who deliberately and decisively changed the course of literature is told in this book, shedding important new light on the key participants, including Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, and Robin Hyde. The movement is traced through small circulation magazines and small press publications from 1932 to 1941. The repudiations and loyalties by which the movement defined itself are explored, including its opposition to the literary establishment and to late Georgian verse, its naming of its precursors and allies from the 1920s, and its choice of overseas models such as the British Moderns and the new American short-story writers for the creation of a new literature. oppose the cultural myths supported by the literary establishment and the writers' responses to the world-wide social upheavals of the period -- the Depression, the international crises of 1935 to 1939, and World War II.

Author : Terry Sturm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:60097334

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Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English by Terry Sturm Pdf

Author : Wystan Curnow
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015019794984

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Essays on New Zealand Literature by Wystan Curnow Pdf

Author : Kai Jensen
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Masculinity in literature
ISBN : 186940145X

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Whole Men by Kai Jensen Pdf

Kai Jensen takes a provocative look at masculinity in New Zealand literature. He argues that New Zealand writing around the Second World War was shaped by excitement about masculinity as a way of challenging society. Inspired partly by Marxism, writers such as A.R.D. Fairburn, Denis Glover, John Mulgan and Frank Sargeson linked national identity to the ordinary working man or soldier, and attempted to merge artistic activity and manliness in a new ideal, the whole man. This masculine excitement forged a literary and intellectual culture which was powerful for thirty years, and which discouraged women writers. Jensen suggests that the aftermath of masculinism still influences the way New Zealand intellectuals see themselves, and that the masculine tradition survives in the writing of Owen Marshall, Sam Hunt, Maurice Shadbolt and even Maurice Gee. At the same time he argues that masculinism underwent a process of change after its high point in the 1940s: Frank Sargeson's closeted homosexuality posed a complex problem for the masculine tradition and its historians, and James K. Baxter's symbolic, Jungian poetry was also hard to reconcile with the idea that men's writing must be based on robust experience. Yet Baxter prepared the masculine tradition for the 1960s and 1970s by renovating the whole man as bohemian lover. Whole Men is not just about one literary movement, but about how literary culture works, and how New Zealand intellectuals construct their identities.

Author : Antonella Sarti
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484917

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Spiritcarvers by Antonella Sarti Pdf

In a land caught between the sea and cloud, where the natural landscape still refuses civilization, there are those; the composers of words, tellers of tales, that help shape the minds of the people that live on its shores. They are spiritcarvers. New Zealand writing today is engaging in an intent struggle to subvert multiple shapes into voices. These interviews, as a record of biographical orature, are shaped into presenting the figure of the storyteller through memory and language; explorations of how we imagine and create ourselves with and into words. Here we encounter the dichotomy of fiction and non-fiction, myth and consensual reality, imagination and truth: do we live within our own selected fictions? Identity is shaped by the authors' sense of displacement as well as of belonging - meeting otherness with dispossession, discovering connection through isolation. Among the focal points of the interviews are the role of women's writing, Maori writing, interrelations among different cultures, and the influence of literary and oral tradition within New Zealand.