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Te Kaihau / The Windeater is Keri Hulme's first book of short stories. It brings together 10 years of her writing. Many of the stories are new and are printed here for the first time. One story, 'A Drift in Dream' gives a pre-bone people glimpse of Simon and his parents. Table of contents: * Foreword: Tara Diptych * Kaibatsu-San * Swansong * King Bait * A Tally if the Souls of Sheep * One Whale, Singing * Planetesimal * Hooks and Feelers * He Tauware Kawa, He Kawa Tauware * The Knife and the stone * While My Guitar Gently Sings * A Nightsong for the Shining Cuckoo * The Cicadas of Summer * Kiteflying Party at Doctors' Point * Unnamed Islands in the Unknown Sea * Stations on the Way to Avalon * A Window Drunken in the Brain * A Drift in Dream * Te Kaihau / The Windeater * Afterword: Headnote to a Maui Tale.
Covering the two decades from 1972, Swiss scholar Otto Heim presents detailed readings of the novels and short fiction by Heretaunga Pat Baker, Alan Duff, Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Bruce Stewart, J. C. Sturm, Apirana Taylor, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. His book places the fiction by Maori writers in the context of a culture of survival and traces its textual engagement with violence between empathy and sacrifice, from the privacy of domestic violence to the public arenas of systemic violence and war. He argues that out of this confrontation with violence emerges a distinctive ethnic world view created by the construction of individual experience, the development of an ideological stance and the expression of a spiritual orientation. Heim's analysis shows works of fiction by contemporary Maori writers as challenging explorations of the constraints placed on the literary imagination by the urgent facts of the human condition and the imperatives of culture.
This dictionary is a guide to the key authors, concepts, and terms used in the study of literature written in English. Each entry begins with a straightforward definition, and is followed by explanation and examples. Each writer is defined by type, significant preoccupation and/or style, and a selection of notable works. There are a number of entries on writers in a foreign language who have had a major influence on literature in English. One of the most important uses of this book is as a cross-referencing tool. Italicized cross-referenced entries form an interrelated web, presenting a unified overall picture of particular areas of interest.
In 1984 the magazine Wasafiri was founded to promote multicultural writers work. To celebrate its' twentieth anniversary, this brings together a some of the interviews with key international writers previously featured in Wasafiri.
Key Concepts in Postcolonial Literature provides an overview of the main themes, issues and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literatures. Discussing historical, cultural and contextual background, it contains selected work of some of the major writers from this period.
In a land caught between the sea and cloud, where the natural landscape still refuses civilization, there are those; the composers of words, tellers of tales, that help shape the minds of the people that live on its shores. They are spiritcarvers. 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.
A collection of stories by the author of TĚ€he bone people', this book portrays the melodic traditions of Maori culture and language.