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This Pākehā life : an unsettled memoir / Alison Jones.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: WGN1Description: 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 198858728X
  • 9781988587288
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 378.12092 23
LOC classification:
  • LA2394
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
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

Includes bibliographical references.

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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