Striding both worlds : with Ihimaera and New Zealand's literary traditions / / Melissa Kennedy.

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...

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Superior document:Cross/cultures ; 134
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Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures ; 134.
Physical Description:1 online resource (275 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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