The Greenstone Flaw

The paper will offer a critique on this rip-roaring yarn, a prototype of the romantic heroic settler novel of the mid- to late-nineteenth century. It is typical of those constructs of White hegemony, involving such characters as the White hero, friendly Maori sidekick, Maori princess who saves the White hero from the usual volcanic eruption or earthquake presumably so he can go back home to marry the (White) woman who has been waiting for him all along. Freire, Said, Ghandi, Spivak, Marx, Foucault, the Spice Girls and aspects of the film Titanic will be invoked in the paper to provide an utterly useless (con)text to text.