TY  - BOOK
AU  - Majid,Nadia
TI  - 'My mother was the earth, my father was the sky': myth and memory in Maori novels in English 
SN  - 303430224X
AV  - PR9625.5.I34 M35 2010
U1  - 823.91409899442 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Bern, Switzerland, New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Ihimaera, Witi,
KW  - Grace, Patricia,
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - Maori authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Myth in literature
KW  - Memory in literature
KW  - Māori (New Zealand people) in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Maori writing in contemporary discourse -- Myth and memory: functions and methods -- Myth and the emergence of Maori identity -- Old tales for a new future: the use of myth in Maori fiction -- Memory in narrative: in search of a Maori identity -- He tuhinga pakimaero: the novels -- Te tumu: the foundations: what it means to be Maori -- Te poupou: the walls: occupying the new Maori space -- Te tahu: the roof: moving towards home -- The novel as re-interpreter of the past and guide to the future -- From a literature of survival to novels of empowerment and pioneering
ER  -