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What is the role of literature in the Transtasman region? Brigid Magner shows us the richness and variety of the Transtasman literary region, which extends between Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, including lutruwita/Tasmania. She draws attention to the region's quiet persistence despite its apparent fragmentation across national borders. By performing close readings of contemporary texts in which the shared boundary of Te Tai-o-Rēhua/Tasman Sea features powerfully, Magner illuminates what these works of fiction 'know' about life in this cross-border zone, with topics ranging from deportation and abortion, to coercive control and shearing.
The featured authors treat Transtasman mobility as textually meaningful and gesture towards a literary world that is hidden in plain sight. The literary forms they employ both reflect and in some cases create connections that move beyond their nations of origin. This book offers new understandings of the ways in which Transtasman literary works may be downplayed, ignored, or claimed by one nation, instead of being seen from a more generative transnational perspective.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Transtasman Literary Region
Chapter 1
The Transtasman Ur-text? Witi Ihimaera's The Trowenna Sea
Chapter 2
Goldfields Theatrics in Ruth Park's One-a-pecker, Two-a-pecker
Chapter 3
Destination Sydney: Reproductive Bodies in The Godwits Fly and Loop Tracks
Chapter 4
"First You Go and Form a Co": Boundary Disputes in Patricia Grace's "Ngati Kangaru"
Chapter 5
Escape to an Imaginary Elsewhere: Stephanie Johnson's "The Glass Whittler" and Lloyd Jones's "Swimming to Australia"
Chapter 6
Gaslighting, Surveillance and Entrapment in Maketū: J. P. Pomare's Call Me Evie
Chapter 7
Wandering Over Similar Ground: Elizabeth Smither's Transtasman Suite
Chapter 8
The Kiwi Work Machine: Roger McDonald's Shearers' Motel
Conclusion
