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Aotearoa New Zealand, “a tiny Pacific country,” is of great interest to those engaged in postcolonial and literary studies throughout the world. In all former colonies, myths of national identity are vested with various interests. Shifts in collective Pakeha (or New Zealand-European) identity have been marked by the phenomenal popularity of three novels, each at a time of massive social change. Late-colonialism, anti-imperialism, and the collapse of the idea of a singular ‘nation’ can be traced through the reception of John Mulgan’s Man Alone (1939), Keri Hulme’s the bone people (1983), and Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors (1990). Yet close analysis of these three novels also reveals marginalization and silencing in claims to singular Pakeha identity and a linear development of settler acculturation. Such a dynamic resonates with that of other ‘settler’ cultures – the similarities and differences telling in comparison. Specifically, Reading Pakeha? Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand explores how concepts of race and ethnicity intersect with those of gender, sex, and sexuality. This book also asks whether ‘Pakeha’ is still a meaningful term.

New Zealand literature --- New Zealanders --- Kiwis (New Zealanders) --- Ethnology --- History and criticism. --- Books and reading. --- National characteristics, New Zealand, in literature. --- Duff, Alan, --- Hulme, Keri. --- Mulgan, John, --- English literature

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This book is about the Booker Prize - the London-based literary award made annually to "the best novel written in English" by a writer from one of those countries belonging to, or formerly part of, the British Commonwealth. The approach to the Prize is thematically historical and spans the award period to 1999. The novels that have won or shared the Prize in this period are examined within a theoretical framework mapping the literary terrain of the fiction. Individual chapters explore themes that occur within the larger narrative formed by this body of novels - collectively invoked cultures, social trends and movements spanning the stages of imperial heyday and decline as perceived over the past three decades. Individually and collectively, the novels mirror, often in terms of more than a single static image, British imperial culture after empire, contesting and reinterpreting perceptions of the historical moment of the British Empire and its legacy in contemporary culture. The body of Booker novels narrates the demise of empire and the emergence of different cultural formations in its aftermath. The novels are grouped for discussion according to the way in which they deal with aspects of the transition from empire to a post-imperial culture - from early imperial expansion, through colonization, retrenchment, decolonization and postcolonial pessimism, to the emergence of tribal nationalisms and post-imperial nation-states. The focus throughout is primarily literary and contingently cultural.

Commonwealth fiction (English) --- Imperialism in literature --- Booker Prize --- History and criticism --- History --- Commonwealth countries --- In literature --- Gordimer, Nadine --- Ishiguro, Kazuo --- Keneally, Thomas --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Okri, Ben --- Ondaatje, Michael --- Rushdie, Salman --- Commonwealth fiction (English) - History and criticism --- Booker Prize - History --- Commonwealth countries - In literature --- Common wealth fiction(English) --- Man Booker Prize --- Booker McConnell Prize --- Literary prizes --- Carey (peter), 1943 --- -Coetzee (john maxwell), 1940 --- -Farrell (j.g.) --- Hulme (keri) --- Jhabvala (ruth prawer) --- Roy (arundhati), 1961 --- -Scott (paul) --- Unsworth (barry)

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English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Creativity in literature --- Imagination --- Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Créativité dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Congresses --- Histoire et critique --- Congrès --- 820 <100> --- 820 "19" --- Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 820 <100> Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Créativité dans la littérature --- Congrès --- Littérature anglophone --- Littérature postcoloniale --- MALGONKAR (MANOHAR) --- DHLOMO (H.I.E.) --- HULME (KERI) --- DAVIS (JACK) --- IHIMAERA (WITI), 1944 --- -ACHEBE (CHINUA), 1930 --- -BREYTENBACH (BREYTEN), 1939 --- -COETZEE (JOHN MAXWELL), 1940 --- -ONDAATJE (MICHAEL), 1943 --- -FRAME (JANET), 1924-2004 --- SOYINKA (WOLE), 1934 --- -WALCOTT (DEREK), 1930 --- -BONE PEOPLE, THE

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American fiction --- Literature and mental illness --- Women and literature --- Mentally ill in literature. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Healing in literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Medicine in Literature. --- Mental Disorders --- Cultural Characteristics. --- Medicine, Traditional. --- Women. --- Girls --- Woman --- Women's Groups --- Girl --- Women Groups --- Women's Group --- Indigenous Medicine --- Primitive Medicine --- Traditional Medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk Medicine --- Folk Remedies --- Home Remedies --- Medicine, Folk --- Medicine, Indigenous --- Medicine, Primitive --- Folk Remedy --- Home Remedy --- Remedies, Folk --- Remedies, Home --- Remedy, Folk --- Remedy, Home --- Traditional Pulse Diagnosis --- Materia Medica --- Nostrums --- Pharmacognosy --- Plants, Medicinal --- Ethnopharmacology --- Ethnic Boundary Maintenance --- Boundary Maintenance, Ethnic --- Boundary Maintenances, Ethnic --- Characteristic, Cultural --- Characteristics, Cultural --- Cultural Characteristic --- Ethnic Boundary Maintenances --- Maintenance, Ethnic Boundary --- Maintenances, Ethnic Boundary --- Literature, Medicine in --- in Literature, Medicine --- Literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Authors, Insane --- Mental illness and literature --- Poets, Insane --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- ethnology. --- therapy. --- Brodber, Erna. --- Sinclair, Jo, --- Silko, Leslie, --- Bambara, Toni Cade. --- Hulme, Keri. --- Silko, Leslie Marmon, --- Traditional Medicine Practitioners