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

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. Th...

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