Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 417 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
Interviews with eighteen writers from New Zealand
Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 417 g
Reihe: Cross/Cultures
ISBN: 978-90-420-0703-1
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi
New Zealand writing today is engaging in an intent struggle to subvert multiple shapes into voices. These interviews, as a record of biographical orature, are shaped into presenting the figure of the storyteller through memory and language; explorations of how we imagine and create ourselves with and into words. Here we encounter the dichotomy of fiction and non-fiction, myth and consensual reality, imagination and truth: do we live within our own selected fictions? Identity is shaped by the authors' sense of displacement as well as of belonging - meeting otherness with dispossession, discovering connection through isolation.
Among the focal points of the interviews are the role of women's writing, Maori writing, interrelations among different cultures, and the influence of literary and oral tradition within New Zealand.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword. Acknowledgements. Photo Credits. Introduction. THE INTERVIEWS. Barbara Anderson. Alistair Te Ariki Campbell. Marilyn Duckworth. Alan Duff. Patricia Grace. Keri Hulme. Witi Ihimaera. Fiona Kidman. Elizabeth Knox. Shonagh Koea. Margaret Mahy. Bill Manhire. Vincent O'Sullivan. Vivienne Plumb. Maurice Shadbolt. Apirana Taylor. Albert Wendt. Damien Wilkins.