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Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific IslandsEdited by Farzana Gounder
[Studies in Narrative 21] 2015
► pp. 209–223
Edited by Farzana Gounder
[Studies in Narrative 21] 2015
► pp. 209–223
“[P]ulling tomorrow’s sky from [the] kete”
Culture-specific narrative representations of re/membering in contemporary Māori and first Australian novels
Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia constitute plural, heterogeneous and hybrid spaces, in which a multiplicity of Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures live together but are not treated equally. How can indigenous novels contribute to ensuing transcultural negotiations of competitive and synergetic processes of re/membering in “post”-colonial contexts? What roles do the texts play in the construction processes of different versions of the past and of cultural identities? Proposed answers rely on a cultural contextualization of “classic” categories of narratology: Indigenized methods of a “post”-colonial narratology are used to interpret culture-specific representations of cultural re/membering and to outline transcultural functional potentials of a contemporary Māori novel, Patricia Grace’s Potiki (1986), complemented by references to a First Australian text, Bruce Pascoe’s Earth (2001).
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