Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows

Bowels Do Dry

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Bowels Do Dry

A Bakhtinian Perspective will explore the Architectonic Self implicit in the main character, Daphne Withers, of this brilliant New Zealand novel. Random and totally inappropriate parallels with Arundhati Roy, Margaret Forster, classical Tamil poetry, Caribbean hybrid literature and Hindu sacred cow beliefs will reveal that when bowels do dry you can always rely on Janet Frame to provide superb discourse.

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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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