The long forgetting
The Long Forgetting is the first book-length study of New Zealand's post-colonial literary culture. Beginning with a survey of the wrenching economic, social, and cultural changes that have occurred since 1970 - including Maori protest, the anti-tour protests of 1981, Rogernomics, Ruthanasia, the 'fiscal envelope' and the America's Cup win - it then moves back to the nineteenth century and the formation of Europeans' relationship with Maori. Subsequent chapters survey recent critics' work in breaking up the myth of male-dominated cultural nationalism that occupied much of the mid-twentieth century, and, returning to the years since 1970, show the rise of new writing by women, gays and Maori. A final chapter treats the 'Generation X' phenomenon, Maori writers' struggle with official biculturalism, and the rise of a distinctive, New Zealand-based Pasifika writing
Print Book, English, 2007
Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, N.Z., 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
274 p. ; 23 cm.
9781877257698, 1877257699
182764124
1. The postcolonial moment. Fretful sleepers. Years of anger. The And-Antic interruption. Recuperating. TINA. Opening the fiscal envelope. Enough is enough. The postcolonial moment?. Becoming Mä̈̈ori
2. The colonial sublime. Colonial capitalism. Lebensraum. The Treaty of Waitangi. The colonial sublime. The scenic wonderlands. Maoriland. The Mä̈ori sublime. The bicultural sublime. Translation. The postcultural. The Mä̈ori other. The Te Maori exhibition 1984-87
3. Forgetting. Fairyland. Burnt bush. Paradise and the works. The story of a New Zealand sheep station. The settlement of settlement. Compost. Good keen men
4. Remembering. The South Island myth. High masculinism and homophobia. The masochistic sublime. Agonising. The female sublime. The gay sublime. Queer theory
5. Resisting. The postcolonial exotic. Spectacular babies. The bicultural dilemma. Tino rangatiratanga. Mongrels. Oceania. Resisting the exotic. Resisting fiction. Becoming Oceanic