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Author Allen, Chadwick.

Title Blood narrative : indigenous identity in American Indian and Maori literary and activist texts / Chadwick Allen
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2002

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 MELB  809.989 A4253/B  AVAILABLE
Description x, 308 pages ; 25 cm
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
Contents Introduction: Marking the Indigenous in Indigenous Minority Texts -- Pt. I. A Directed Self-Determination -- 1. A Marae on Paper: Writing a New Maori World in Te Ao Hou -- 2. Indian Truth: Debating Indigenous Identity after Indians in the War -- Pt. II. An Indigenous Renaissance -- 3. Rebuilding the Ancestor: Constructing Self and Community in the Maori Renaissance -- 4. Blood/Land/Memory: Narrating Indigenous Identity in the American Indian Renaissance -- Conclusion: Declaring a Fourth World -- App. Integrated Time Line, World War II to 1980
Summary 'Blood Narrative' is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Indians, groups who share much in their responses to European settler colonialism
Analysis USA Literatur Indianer Ethnische Identität
Maori Literatur Ethnische Identität
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-300) and index
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
New Zealand literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.
New Zealand literature -- Maori authors -- History and criticism.
Comparative literature -- American and New Zealand
Comparative literature -- New Zealand and American
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Intellectual life.
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life.
Indian activists -- Intellectual life.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
LC no. 2002001660
ISBN 0822329298
0822329476