Buch, Englisch, Band 147, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 816 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
Buch, Englisch, Band 147, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 816 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
ISBN: 978-90-420-3474-7
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
This book invokes a number of foun¬dational contexts, ranging from the physi¬cal landscape and historical circumstances to intellectual and cultural formations, for understanding the various permutations of aloneness, loneliness, and isolation in New Zealand fiction. The evolving as¬pects of isolation acquire their textual sig-nificance in this study through reading methodologies that draw on colonial, postcolonial, postmodern, feminist, and deconstructionist thinking, as well as on the illuminating insights of New Zea¬land’s literary-critical traditions.
The condition of isolation not only manifests itself in the expected terms con¬notative of exclusion and exile but also functions in certain contexts as the cata¬lyst for productive transformations of the social or symbolic consensus. This raises the question of whether representations of isolation in New Zealand literature may also tap subtly into a national unconscious in ways that operate dynamically upon the dominant modes of consciousness.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Isolation in the Back-Country: George Chamier, G.B. Lancaster, Katherine Mansfield, John Mulgan, and Graham Billing
Outsiders and Misfits in Fragmented Social Milieux: William Satchell, Vincent Pyke, John A. Lee, Robin Hyde, Frank Sargeson, and Others
The Lonely and the Alone in the Fiction of Janet Frame
Maurice Gee and Postmodern Isolation
Women, Isolation, and History: Fiona Kidman, Noel Hilliard, and Patricia Grace
Cultural Deracination and Isolation: Witi Ihimaera, Keri Hulme, and Alan Duff
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