Description
This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global marketplace.
Combining postcolonial and world literature methodologies contributors chart the global relocation of national culture from the nineteenth century to the present exploring what "New Zealand literature" means in different creative, teaching, and publishing contexts. They identify ongoing global entanglements with local identities and tensions between national and post-national literary discourses, considering Aotearoa New Zealand’s history as a white settler colony and its status as a bicultural nation and a key player in the Asia-Pacific region, active on the global stage. Topics and authors include: Stefanie Herades on colonial New Zealand literature and the global marketplace; Claudia Marquis on David Hare’s "Aotearoa series" as exotic reading for adolescents; Paloma Fresno-Calleja on the exoticizing landscape novels of Sarah Lark; James Wenley on Indian Ink Theatre company as hybrid export; Janet M. Wilson on the globalization of the New Zealand short story; Chris Prentice on pedagogic articulations of New Zealand literature; Leonie John on the challenges of teaching Māori literature in Germany; Dieter Riemenschneider on New Zealand literature at the Frankfurt Book Fair; Paula Morris on Commonwealth writers and the Booker Prize; Selina Tusitala Marsh on contemporary Pasifika poetry; and Chris Miller on the afterlife of Allen Curnow.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: New Zealand literature and the global marketplace
Paloma Fresno-Calleja and Janet M. Wilson
2. Colonial New Zealand literature in the global marketplace: Then and now
Stefanie Herades
3. The Adolescent Exotic: Reading New Zealand in David Hair’s "Aotearoa series" (2009–2014)
Claudia Marquis
4. Sarah Lark’s landscape novels and the "New Zealand exotic"
Paloma Fresno-Calleja
5. Indian Ink via New Zealand Inc.: Hybrid exports for the global theatre marketplace
James Wenley
6. From national to global: Writing and translating the Aotearoa New Zealand short story
Janet M. Wilson
7. Articulating New Zealand and literature in "New Zealand literature" classes: Attending to the parergon
Chris Prentice
8. Teaching Maori Literature as a Tauiwi scholar: A German case study
Leonie John
9. On sale: Aotearoa New Zealand literature in Germany
Dieter Riemenschneider
10. The "leftovers of empire": Commonwealth writers and the Booker Prize
Paula Morris
11. Contemporary Pasifika Poetry in Aotearoa New Zealand: An interview with Selina Tusitala Marsh
Paloma Fresno-Calleja and Janet M. Wilson
12. Allen Curnow: The life of the poems
Chris Miller
