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The Oxford companion to New Zealand literature
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ISBN: 0195583485 9780195583489 0191735191 Year: 1998 Publisher: Melbourne Oxford Auckland : Oxford University Press,

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This companion seeks to offer a comprehensive record of New Zealand writing in an easily accessible form. It contains more than 1500 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, novels, plays, poetry, journals, periodicals, anthologies, literary movements and professional organizations.


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Janet Frame
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ISBN: 9780746310113 9781786942340 1786942348 0746310110 0746310560 9780746310564 9780746312582 9780746311714 0746311710 074631258X Year: 2011 Publisher: Tavistock : Northcote House,

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La vie passionnée de Katherine Mansfield
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ISBN: 2825901199 9782825901199 Year: 1979 Publisher: Brussel: Labor,


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People and place : the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island in history and literature
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ISBN: 1760463450 1760463442 Year: 2020 Publisher: ANU Press

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This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut off within New Zealand by the South Island's rugged Southern Alps, the West Coast was a land of gold, coal and timber. In the 1950s and 1960s, it nurtured a literature that embodied a sense of belonging to an Australasian world and captured the aspirations of New Zealand's emergent radical nationalism. More recent West Coast writers, observing the hollowing out of their communities, saw in miniature and in advance the growing gulf between city and regional economies aligned to an older economic order losing its relevance. Were they chronicling the last hurrah of a retreating age or crafting a literature of regional resistance?

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