Mapping the Godzone : : A Primer on New Zealand Literature and Culture / / William J. Schafer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Schafer, William J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

William Schafer read, and dreamed, about New Zealand before his first visit in 1995. Mapping the Godzone grew out of that visit and his attempts, as an American, to focus his impressions of New Zealand's literary culture and relate its mental and moral landscape to that of the United States. Through an idiosyncratic selection of contemporary novels and films, Schafer opens up a complex and compelling world. Readers will encounter internationally celebrated writers such as Witi Ihimaera, Fiona Kidman, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, Maurice Shadbolt, Albert Wendt, Alan Duff, Keri Hulme, Patricia Grace, Ian Wedde, and Janet Frame; and the emerging New Zealand film industry and the handful of directors (among them Jane Campion, Peter Jackson, Vincent Ward, and Geoff Murphy) who have created a vital cinema renaissance since the 1970s. Stimulating and highly original in its approach, Mapping the Godzone is an eloquent reflection on a remote island nation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: Sailing To Aotearoa -- Fishing With Maui: Beginning The Voyage -- 1. Where On Earth Is Aotearoa? -- 2. Whalers, Sailors, Sealers -- 3. The Last Big Islands -- 4. Once Were Crusaders -- 5. The Bildungsroman At The End Of The World -- 6. The Necessity Of Ghosts: Aotearoa Gothic -- 7. Falling Through The Hole In The Godzone -- 8. Aotearoa At The Movies -- Bibliography -- Index -- About The Author