The settler's plot : how stories take place in New Zealand

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The settler's plot : how stories take place in New Zealand

Alex Calder

Auckland University Press, 2011

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The Settler's Plot is a fresh and engaging study of the relationship between literature and place in New Zealand. Drawing on an engrossing selection of documentary and literary sources, Alex Calder explores the places our writers have turned to most often - the beach, the farm, the bush, the suburb, "overseas" - and connects the history of Pakeha settlement to the way stories take shape in these settings. Europeans arrive on a beach, make markets, acquire property. How do their stories build fences or cross boundaries between Maori and Pakeha? Why do so many of our novels and poems set on farms and in suburbs lament a despoiled and soulless environment without shaking anyone's belief in progress? Why have Kiwi writers looking for their own culture headed for the metropolitan centres of the old world? Through fascinating and unpredictable readings of some of our greatest literature - writers such as F E Maning and Herbert Guthrie-Smith are treated as central figures, while Mansfield, Sargeson, Curnow and Frame are viewed from new angles - Alex Calder investigates the often contradictory meanings that Pakeha have found in our most familiar settings, offering a whole new approach to the cultural history of this country.

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Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Belonging -- Chapter 1. Nature and the Question of Pakeha Turangawaewae -- Part II: Landing -- Chapter 2. Augustus Earle and the Secret of Cannibalism -- Chapter 3. Maning's Demons -- Chapter 4. A Small Plot at Orakau -- Part III: Settling -- Chapter 5. Taking Place -- Chapter 6. The Plots of Tutira -- Chapter 7. Suburbs, Settlers, Souls -- Chapter 8. Glorious Phantoms: Frank Sargeson in Bohemia -- Part IV: Looming -- Chapter 9. There and Back: Robin Hyde's Passport to Hell -- Chapter 10. Western Swing: John Mulgan's Man Alone -- Chapter 11. Cathedral Rock: Allen Curnow in Italy -- Chapter 12. Placing Frame -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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