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The long forgetting : post-colonial literary culture in New Zealand

Title
The long forgetting : post-colonial literary culture in New Zealand / Patrick Evans.
Author
Evans, Patrick, 1944-
Publication
Christchurch, N.Z. : Canterbury University Press, 2007.

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Description
274 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"The Long Forgetting is the first book-length study of New Zealand's post-colonial literary culture. Beginning with a survey of the wrenching economic, social, and cultural changes that have occurred since about 1970 - including Maori protest, the anti-tour protests of 1981, Rogernomics and Ruthanasia, the 'fiscal envelope' and the America's Cup win - it then moves back to the nineteenth century and the formation of Europeans' relationship with Maori." -- BOOK COVER.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • New Zealand literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Authors, New Zealand > 20th century
  • Authors, New Zealand
  • New Zealand literature
  • Postkoloniale Literatur
  • Neuseeland
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-266) and index.
Contents
1. The postcolonial moment. Fretful sleepers. Years of anger. The And-Antic interruption. Recuperating. TINA. Opening the fiscal envelope. Enough is enough. The postcolonial moment?. Becoming Mä̈̈ori -- 2. The colonial sublime. Colonial capitalism. Lebensraum. The Treaty of Waitangi. The colonial sublime. The scenic wonderlands. Maoriland. The Mä̈ori sublime. The bicultural sublime. Translation. The postcultural. The Mä̈ori other. The Te Maori exhibition 1984-87 -- 3. Forgetting. Fairyland. Burnt bush. Paradise and the works. The story of a New Zealand sheep station. The settlement of settlement. Compost. Good keen men -- 4. Remembering. The South Island myth. High masculinism and homophobia. The masochistic sublime. Agonising. The female sublime. The gay sublime. Queer theory -- 5. Resisting. The postcolonial exotic. Spectacular babies. The bicultural dilemma. Tino rangatiratanga. Mongrels. Oceania. Resisting the exotic. Resisting fiction. Becoming Oceanic.
ISBN
  • 9781877257698 (pbk.)
  • 1877257699 (pbk.)
LCCN
2007534381
OCLC
  • ocn190786062
  • 190786062
  • SCSB-14063729
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library