Buch, Englisch, Band 68, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 577 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
A Study of Australian Aboriginal and New Zealand Maori Literature
Buch, Englisch, Band 68, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 577 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
ISBN: 978-90-420-1048-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
Standard postcolonial readings of indigenous texts often overwrite the ‘difference’ they seek to locate because critical orthodoxy predetermines what ‘difference’ can be. Critical evaluations still tend to eclipse the ontological grounds of Aboriginal and Maori traditions and specific ways of moving through and behaving in cultural landscapes and social contexts. Hence the corrective applied in Circles and Spirals – to look for locally and culturally specific tracks and traces that lead in other directions than those catalogued by postcolonial convention.
This agenda is pursued by means of searching enquiries into the historical, anthropological, political and cultural determinants of the present state of Aboriginal and Maori writing (principally fiction). Independent yet interrelated exemplary analyses of works by Keri Hulme and Patricia Grace and Mudrooroo and Sam Watson (Australia) provided the ‘thick description’ that illuminates the author’s central theses, with comparative side-glances at Witi Ihimaera, Heretaunga Pat Baker and Alan Duff (New Zealand) and Archie Weller and Sally Morgan (Australia).
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ozeanische & Austronesische Literatur
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kunstethnologie, Musikethnologie
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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 Maori 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