Writing along broken lines
Subtitle: violence and ethnicity in contemporary Māori fiction
By: Otto Heim.
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: New Zealand fiction -- Maori authors -- History and criticism.; Maori fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Maori (New Zealand people) -- Intellectual life.; Maori (New Zealand people) in literature.; Violence in literature.; Ethnicity in literature.; New Zealand -- In literature.
Other titles: Violence and ethnicity in contemporary Māori fiction
Description: "Covering the two decades from 1972, Swiss scholar Otto Heim presents detailed readings of the novels and short fiction by Heretaunga Pat Baker, Alan Duff, Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Bruce Stewart, J.C. Sturm, Apirana Taylor, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. His book places the fiction by Maori writers in the context of a culture of survival and traces its textual engagement with violence between empathy and sacrifice, from the privacy of domestic violence to the public arenas of systemic violence and war. He argues that out of this confrontation with violence emerges a distinctive ethnic world view created by the construction of individual experience, the development of an ideological stance and the expression of a spiritual orientation. Heim's analysis shows works of fiction by contemporary Maori writers as challenging explorations of the constraints placed on the literary imagination by the urgent facts of the human condition and the imperatives of culture."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-241) and index.
"Presents detailed readings of the novels and short fiction by Heretaunga Pat Baker, Alan Duff, Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Bruce Stewart, J.C. Sturm, Apirana Taylor and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku"--Cover.