Australian Oceanian category: 71 books
In the Glass Case
Essays on New Zealand Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Over a quarter of a century, C. K. Stead has built up a widely accessible collection of reviews and critical essays on New Zealand literature. In the Glass Case covers a wide spectrum of New Zealand writers, who are examined from a remarkably consistent viewpoint. The title is symbolic: New Zealand...
Decolonizing Culture in Pacific Literature
Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2006
In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines...
by Jennifer Lawn
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the reprise of market-based economics has impacted the forms of social exchange and cultural life in a settler-colonial context. Jennifer Lawn proposes that...
by Norman Lindsay
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Wanting to see the world, Bunyip Bluegum the koala sets out on his travels, taking only a walking stick. At about lunchtime, feeling more than slightly peckish, he meets Bill Barnacle the sailor and Sam Sawnoff the penguin who are eating a pudding. The pudding is a magic one which, no matter how much...
Rifled Sanctuaries
Some Views of the Pacific Islands in Western Literature to 1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The Pacific Islands began to appear in Western literature soon after European navigators made landfall there. From the first, there was seldom a statement of plain facts. Explorers brought their own viewpoints while editors, poets and novelists went on to interpret and moralise the first accounts....
by Maurice Duggan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Maurice Duggan's Collected Stories is a powerful collection of short stories from one of New Zealand's finest writers of the genre. Duggan's lyrical power and exceptional style come to the fore in these brilliant stories, which are tinged with undercurrents and ambivalences. The variety of language...
Waimarino County
& Other Excursions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Looking outwards, into the past, and to the natural landscape for inspiration, these masterful essays offer elegant ruminations on the experience of living. Divided into four distinct sections, the collection explores memories of a small-town childhood, examines subjects such as the Rosetta Stone,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield associated intimately with many members of the Bloomsbury group, but her literary aesthetics placed her at a distance from the artistic works of the group. With chapters written by leading international scholars, Katherine Mansfield and the Bloomsbury...
by M. A. Orthofer
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This user-friendly resource is the perfect reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this guide introduces the styles, trends,...
by Juliet Bell
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Don’t miss this sweeping historical epic, perfect for fans of Gill Paul and Dinah Jeffries. Outback Australia, 1981 After a terrible childhood, Jane comes to Thornfield as nanny to the adorable Adele, watched over by the handsome and enigmatic Edward. Plain and inexperienced, Jane would never dream...
Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique
Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country’s most politically engaged writers. These terms – recognition, commercial success, political engagement – suggest a relationship to forms...
The Rise of the Great Southern Land
The Republic of Australia 2023
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
I have a vision for Australia and it’s a new story, about a new chapter for our great nation but its more than a dream, it foretells our destiny. ‘The Rise of the Great Southern Land” is my second book and interweaves a mix of stories into a series of chapters to provide a 5-year blueprint for...
The Other Hybrid Archipelago
Introduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
The Other Hybrid Archipelago presents the postcolonial literatures of the Francophone Indian Ocean islands to an Anglophone audience. The islands of Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Comoros, and the Seychelles form a region that has a particular cultural identity because of the varied mixture of...
Writing Never Arrives Naked
Early Aboriginal Cultures of Writing in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Playing on both minds and emotions, this academically innovative book reveals the resourceful and often poignant ways that Indigenous Australians involved themselves in the colonists’ paper culture.