LEADER 02693nam 2200397 450 001 9910477053503321 005 20230513053459.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000000569407 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000000569407 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000569407 100 $a20230513d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPeople and Place $eThe West Coast of New Zealand's South Island in history and literature /$fLen Richardson 210 1$aActon, Australian Capital Territory :$cANU Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (216 pages) 225 1 $aANU.Lives series in biography 327 $aIntro -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Region and Nation -- 3. Philip Ross May: Making a Goldfield: Populating a Wilderness -- 4. Patrick O'Farrell: The Reds and the Greens -- 5. Bill Pearson: 1908 and all that: Coal Flat -- 6. Beyond the 1960s I: Literary Reflections -- 7. Beyond the 1960s II: The Historians -- 8. Conclusion: Enduring Past -- Elusive Future -- Bibliography. 330 $aThis book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut off within New Zealand by the South Island's rugged Southern Alps, the West Coast was a land of gold, coal and timber. In the 1950s and 1960s, it nurtured a literature that embodied a sense of belonging to an Australasian world and captured the aspirations of New Zealand's emergent radical nationalism. More recent West Coast writers, observing the hollowing out of their communities, saw in miniature and in advance the growing gulf between city and regional economies aligned to an older economic order losing its relevance. Were they chronicling the last hurrah of a retreating age or crafting a literature of regional resistance? 410 0$aANU.Lives series in biography. 517 $aPeople and Place 606 $aNew Zealand$xIntellectual life$y20th century 606 $aNew Zealand literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aNew Zealand$xIntellectual life 615 0$aNew Zealand literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a993 700 $aRichardson$b Len$0951479 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910477053503321 996 $aPeople and place$92151052 997 $aUNINA