Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows

Nohwere

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Nohwere

This great New Zealand title belongs to an ancestral Pakeha settler society text, elevated to canonical heights by people who have, actually, never read it. The paper will examine the reasons for the deplorable level of English transported to this virgin country from Great Britain, especially the bad spelling.

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Title: A History of New Zealand Literature Through Selected Texts (An abstract for a paper to be presented at the LALALAND Conference.)

Author: Witi Ihimaera

In: Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows

Publication details: Victoria University Press, 1999, Wellington

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

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