This Pākehā life : an unsettled memoir / Alison Jones.
Material type: TextPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: WGN1Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 198858728X
- 9781988587288
- 378.12092 23
- LA2394
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 378.12092 JON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Long Overdue (Lost) Issued | 16/08/2021 04:00 | A538449B | |
Book | South Campus South Campus Main Collection | 378.12092 JON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A538445B |
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Being here -- Ghosts and arrivals -- Learning to stand upright -- Finding boundaries -- Tricky memories -- Māori on the front lawn -- Two friends -- Area returned to the natives -- Impossible love -- Middle-class olives, and revolution -- Light on the kūmara garden -- Wānanga -- A surprising whakapapa -- Risky territory -- A broken hill -- The pīwakawaka and and the kaumātua.
"A timely and perceptive memoir from award-winning author and academic Alison Jones. As questions of identity come to the fore once more in New Zealand, this frank and humane account of a life spent traversing Pākehā and Māori worlds offers important insights into our shared life on these islands"--Publisher information.
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