Striding both worlds : with Ihimaera and New Zealand's literary traditions

Resource Information

The work Striding both worlds : with Ihimaera and New Zealand's literary traditions represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Striding both worlds : with Ihimaera and New Zealand's literary traditions

Title remainder

with Ihimaera and New Zealand's literary traditions

Statement of responsibility

Melissa Kennedy

Creator

• Kennedy, Melissa

Subject

• Ihimaera, Witi, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation
• Maori fiction -- History and criticism
• Maori literature -- Foreign influences
• New Zealand fiction -- Maori authors | History and criticism

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Index

index present

LC call number

PR9639.3.I5

LC item number

Z55 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography

Series statement

Cross/cultures

Series volume

134