New Zealand literature & writers
Articles
- Badlands and Borderlands: Self-Determination and the Limits of Intercultural Negotiation in the Fiction of Patricia Grace and Alice Tawhai
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…
1 November 2010 - Mansfield and Richardson: A Short Story Dialectic
There was a time, though I think that time is past, when a young girl's first public appearance at a ball was a very significant…
1 October 1983 - A.G. Stephens’s ‘Bookfellow’ in New Zealand
A well-known gap in the bibliography of A.G. Stephens, literary editor of the Bulletin and of that paper's short-lived venture into publishing a literary monthly…
1 October 1993 - Australian and New Zealand Fiction
An extended review of Fiction and the Great Depression: Australia and New Zealand 1930-1950 by Ian Reid (Edward Arnold: 1979).
1 May 1980 - A Gendered Bush: Mansfield and Australian Drovers’ Wives
Discusses contemporary rewritings of Lawson's 'The Drover's Wife', including versions by Murray Bail, Frank Moorhouse, Barbara Jefferis, Anna Gambling and Ola Masters/ Argues that these…
1 June 1991