Title: Maoriland : New Zealand literature, 1872-1914 / Jane Stafford and Mark Williams.
Authors: Stafford, Jane, 1951-; Williams, Mark, 1951-
Publisher: Victoria University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: New Zealand literature History and criticism.; New Zealand literature History and criticism.
Abstract: "Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872-1914 argues that glib dismissals of the past do disservice to the present, seeing in the writing of Maoriland something more complex and more diverse: the beginnings of a self-consciously New Zealand literature which, adapts European literary forms to the new place."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction: colonialism and embarrassment -- The encyclopedic fantasy of Alfred Domett -- The bright unstoried waters: Jessie Mackay -- Henry Lawson's aesthetic crisis -- Smoothing the pillow of a dying race: A.A. Grace -- Katherine Mansfield: a modernist in Maoriland -- Edith Searle Grossmann: feminising the bush -- Blanche Baughan's spiritual nationalism -- Gentlemen in the bush: William Satchell -- The Maori writer in Maoriland -- Conclusion: the ends of Maoriland.