The Circle & the Spiral : : A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Māori Literature / / Eva Rask Knudsen.
In Aboriginal and Māori literature, the circle and the spiral are the symbolic metaphors for a never-ending journey of discovery and rediscovery. The journey itself, with its indigenous perspectives and sense of orientation, is the most significant act of cultural recuperation. The present study ou...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : BRILL,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/Cultures Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 360 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Prefaced: A Declaration of Intent at the Border of Contested Terrain
- 1 Beginnings: Circles and Spirals
- 2 Death of the Author
- Rebirth of the Storyteller
- 3 Exile and Return
- From the Landscapes of Unbelonging:
- The Social Realism of the Aboriginal and the Māori Fringe
- 4 The Void as Creative Metaphor:
- The Bone People by Keri Hulme
- 5 The Community as Protagonist:
- Potiki by Patricia Grace
- 6 The Land as Text
- The Text as Land:
- Master of the Ghost Dreaming by Mudrooroo
- 7 Writing the Circle
- The Politics of the Sacred Site:
- The Kadaitcha Sung by Sam Watson
- 8 Endings
- or Beginnings
- Works Cited.