A History of New Zealand Literature

Introduction Mark Williams; 1. A world of waters: imagining, voyaging, entanglement Ingrid Horrocks; 2. Early Māori literature: the writing of Hakaraia Kiharoa Arini Loader; 3. Samuel Butler's influence Simon During; 4. Maoriland reservations Jane Stafford; 5. Katherine Mansfield: colonial modernist Bridget Orr; 6. Colonial ecologies: Guthrie-Smith's Tutira and writing in the settled environment Philip Steer; 7. Defiance and melodrama: fiction in the period of national 'invention', 1920–50 Alex Calder; 8. Journalism and high culture: Robin Hyde among the cultural nationalists Nikki Hessell; 9. 'Simply by sailing in a new direction': the poetics of distance Stuart Murray; 10. 'Rough architects': New Zealand literature and its institutions from Phoenix to Landfall Christopher Hilliard; 11. Against the social pattern: New Zealand fiction, 1950–70 Timothy Jones; 12. Janet Frame: myths of authorship, 1950–90 Marc Delrez; 13. Te ao hou: Te pataka Alice Te Punga Somerville; 14. Out of the drawing room and onto the beach: drama, 1950–70 Mark Houlahan; 15. 'Physician of society': the poet in the 1950s and 1960s Alan Riach; 16. From Hiruharama to Hataitai: the domestication of New Zealand poetry, 1972–90 Harry Ricketts and Mark Williams; 17. The novel, the short story and the rise of a new reading public, 1972–90 Lydia Wevers; 18. 'Dbed and chocolate wheaten beaten': drama defining the nation, 1972–90 David O'Donnell; 19. The Māori renaissance 1972 Melissa Kennedy; 20. 'While history happens elsewhere': fiction and political quietism, 1990–2014 Dougal McNeill; 21. Anecdote in post-1990s New Zealand poetry Anna Smaill; 22. From exploring identity to facing the world: drama since 1990 Stuart Young; 23. From meadow to paddock: children's and young adult literature Anna Jackson; 24. 'Nafanua and the New World': Pasifika's writing of Niu Zealand Selina Tusitala Marsh; 25. New Zealand literature in the program era, or, the spirit of nationalism past Hugh Roberts; Index.