| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 255 pages) |
| Series |
Cross/cultures ; 134 |
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Cross/cultures ; 134
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| Contents |
Cover; Cover; Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Striding Both Worlds; Introduction: Striding Both Worlds; 1 Maori Nationalism; 1 Maori Nationalism; 2 International Aesthetics; 2 International Aesthetics; 3 The Local and the Global; 3 The Local and the Global; 4 Ambivalent Indigeneity; 4 Ambivalent Indigeneity; Conclusion: Composite Identity and Literature; Conclusion: Composite Identity and Literature; Works Cited; Works Cited; Index; Index |
| Summary |
Striding Both Worlds illuminates European influences in the fiction of Witi Ihimaera, Aotearoa New Zealand's foremost Maori writer, in order to question the common interpretation of Maori writing as displaying a distinctive Maori world-view and literary style. Far from being discrete endogenous units, all cultures and literatures arise out of constant interaction, engagement, and even friction. Thus, Maori culture since the 1970s has been shaped by a long history of interaction with colonial British, Pakeha, and other postcolonial and Indigenous cultures. Maori sovereignty and renaissance move |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index |
| Subject |
Ihimaera, Witi, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Ihimaera, Witi, 1944- fast |
| Subject |
New Zealand fiction -- Māori authors -- History and criticism
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Māori fiction -- History and criticism
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Māori literature -- Foreign influences
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Māori fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011284141 |
| ISBN |
9789401200561 |
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9401200564 |
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9042033576 |
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9789042033573 |
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