Research Catalog

Title

The healing tongue : themes in contemporary Maori literature / Peter Beatson.

Author

Beatson, Peter

Publication

Palmerston North, [N.Z.] : Sociology Dept., Massey University, 1989.

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Additional Authors

• Kahukiwa, Robyn
• Massey University. Department of Sociology

Description

iv, 75 p. : col. ill.; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in New Zealand art & society ; 1

Uniform Title

Studies in New Zealand art & society 1.

Subject

• Māori literature > Themes, motives
• Māori literature > Political aspects

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Illustrations are reproduced paintings of Robyn Kahukiwa.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Politics and literature : an autobiographical note -- On 'dialectics' -- The dialectic of tradition and modernism -- The primal mutilation -- Captain Cook and the fulfilment of the prophecy -- The Treaty of Waitangi -- Rewi and the everlasting struggle -- Te Kooti and the Old Testament -- Te Whiti and the Sermon under the mount -- The premature synthesis -- Justice and health for all -- Hope and disillusionment in the Emerald City -- Community and society : Egoism and anomie -- The magnet of the city -- The desolation of the ountry -- The integration option : synthesis by assimilation -- The innocent pakeha -- Ka Whawhai Tonu Tatou -- The land march -- Raglan golf course -- Bastion Point -- The 1981 Springbok Tour -- The kid you send to borstal, the man you send to jail -- The medusa stare -- The mutilated tongue -- Using my brains : the organic intellectual -- Kai :a parenthesis on the politics of taste and distaste -- Pauperization and polarization -- Either warriors or collaborators -- The line of continuity -- Rebuilding the meeting house -- Where the gods wear the moko -- Ghosts against imperialism -- The Mauri -- The archetypes : Papatuanuku and Tumatauenga.

ISBN

0908665334

OCLC

• 21275131
• SCSB-11328371

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library