Narrating Indigenous modernities : transcultural dimensions in contemporary Māori literature / Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu.

"The Māori of New Zealand, a nation that quietly prides itself on its pioneering egalitarianism, have had to assert their Indigenous rights against the demographic, institutional, and cultural dominance of Pākehā and other immigrant minorities - European, Asian, and Polynesian - in a postcol...

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Main Author: Moura-Koçoğlu, Michaela
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Series:Cross/cultures ; 141.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: reframing Maori storytelling
  • "Things are not exactly black or white in Aotearoa": the many facets of Kiwi identity
  • Fragmentation reconsidered: transcultural identities in the making
  • Narratives of (be)longing: Maori literary voices advancing
  • Narratives of (un)belonging: unmasking cleavage, cleaving to identities
  • Transcultural readings: recombining repertoires
  • Navigating transcultural currents: stories of Indigenous modernities.