Striding both worlds [[electronic resource] ] : with Ihimaera and New Zealand's literary traditions / / Melissa Kennedy

• Autore: Kennedy Melissa
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Disciplina: 823; 823.914
• Soggetto topico: New Zealand fiction - Maori authors - History and criticism; Māori fiction - History and criticism; Māori literature - Foreign influences
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Striding Both Worlds; 1 Maori Nationalism; 2 International Aesthetics; 3 The Local and the Global; 4 Ambivalent Indigeneity; Conclusion: Composite Identity and Literature; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 1970's has been shaped by a long history of interaction with colonial British, Pakeha, and other postcolonial and indigenous cultures. Maori sovereignty and renaissance move
• Titolo autorizzato: Striding both worlds
• ISBN: 94-012-0056-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781305403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cross/cultures ; ; 134.