Badlands and Borderlands: Self-Determination and the Limits of Intercultural Negotiation in the Fiction of Patricia Grace and Alice Tawhai

Abstract

The essay examines and extends upon the trope of the borderlands as a conceptual geography employed by postcolonial theory, concentrating on the recent fiction of 'two Maori writers, Patricia Grace and Alice Tawhai, who foreground the material conditions of borderland existence, albeit for very different political purposes'.

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Published 1 November 2010 in Volume 25 No. 4. Subjects: New Zealand literature & writers, Postcolonial literature & writers, Sovereignty.

Cite as: Lawn, Jennifer. ‘Badlands and Borderlands: Self-Determination and the Limits of Intercultural Negotiation in the Fiction of Patricia Grace and Alice Tawhai.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 25, no. 4, 2010, doi: 10.20314/als.39228b4b14.