Children of the Whore and Once Were Worriers

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Children of the Whore and Once Were Worriers

The paper will posit Britannia as prostitute and consider the sorry plight of her children, seeking diasporical haven in the new colonial space of New Zealand. The bifurcated problematics of the two books listed above will be compared and contrasted in one of those stupid and futile intellectual exercises beloved of academics and find contrasts and commonalities that don't exist.

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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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