These stories travel through Druid landscapes and Tahitian coral islands, get caught in a cyclone, settle in Outback Australia, return to New Zealand, eyeball a great white shark, pick up a kilt-clad hitchhiker on the waya
This overview about publishing Indigenous literature in Australia from the mid-1990s to 2000 includes broader issues that writers need to consider such as engaging with readers and reviewers. Although changes have been made since 2000, the issues identified in this book remain current and to a large extent unresolved.
Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Get on the Waka is a fresh, energetic collection of fiction writing by Maori since 2000, selected and with an introduction by Witi Ihimaera. It showcases 17 stories and extracts from established writers, most of whom have won awards and recognition in New Zealand and overseas.
A valuable introduction to the unique armory of weapons that Maori developed prior to contact with Europeans, including details of manufacture and accounts of combat.
This biography of Te Kooti Te Turuki, a Maori guerilla fighter, places equal weight on his leadership after the wars. This text rests on oral narratives, recorded sayings and song texts, and the diaries and letters of Te Kooti himself to record this period of New Zealand history.