The Settler's Plot - How Stories Take Place in New Zealand
Author(s): Alex Calder
The Settler's Plot is a fresh and engaging study of the relationship between literature and place in New Zealand. Drawing on an engrossing selection of documentary and literary sources, Alex Calder explores the places our writers have turned to most often - the beach, the farm, the bush, the suburb and "overseas."
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"As an engaging contribution to an international field of study, it combines local depth with descriptive models that both draw on and contribute to the global dialogue about settlement - one which looks set to increase in both richness and scope." - Megan Murray-Pepper, Times Literary Supplement
Dr Alex Calder teaches New Zealand and American literature in the English Department of The University of Auckland. He has written extensively on the literature of the cross-cultural frontier and the problems of settlement, and is an authority on the works of Herman Melville. Dr Calder is the author of The Writing of New Zealand: Inventions and Identities (Reed, 1993) and coeditor of Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840 (University of Hawai'i Press, 1999).
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Belonging
Chapter 1. Nature and the Question of Pakeha Turangawaewae
Part II: Landing
Chapter 2. Augustus Earle and the Secret of Cannibalism
Chapter 3. Maning's Demons
Chapter 4. A Small Plot at Orakau
Part III: Settling
Chapter 5. Taking Place
Chapter 6. The Plots of Tutira
Chapter 7. Suburbs, Settlers, Souls
Chapter 8. Glorious Phantoms: Frank Sargeson in Bohemia
Part IV: Looming
Chapter 9. There and Back: Robin Hyde's Passport to Hell
Chapter 10. Western Swing: John Mulgan's Man Alone
Chapter 11. Cathedral Rock: Allen Curnow in Italy
Chapter 12. Placing Frame
Notes
Bibliography
Index
General Fields
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- : Auckland University Press
- : Auckland University Press
- : 01 August 2011
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Alex Calder
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 820.93293
- : 299