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Here be gods, monsters and mortals, David Eggleton
Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers Witi Ihimaera and Whiti Hereaka (eds) Penguin Random House, $38.00, ISBN 9780143772965 In Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold By Māori Writers, the retelling of mythic stories is a communal activity, with one storyteller picking…
Tagged with: David Eggleton, Issue 127, Penguin Random House, Spring 2019, Whiti Hereaka, Witi Ihimaera
Posted in Literature, Māori, Review
Posted in Literature, Māori, Review
On not relying on truthiness, Brian Easton
A Conversation With My Country Alan Duff Penguin Random House, $39.00, ISBN 9780143773269 In 1990, a comet brightened the New Zealand literary scene and society with the publication of Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors, for it involved both an extraordinary…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Brian Easton, Issue 127, Penguin Random House, Spring 2019
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Stirring up the dust, John McLellan
Tutu Te Puehu: New Perspectives on the New Zealand Wars John Crawford and Ian McGibbon (eds) Steele Roberts, $50.00, ISBN 9780947493721 In February 2011, over 150 years after the start of the First Taranaki War, the first ever conference dedicated…
Tagged with: Ian McGibbon, Issue 126, John Crawford, John McLellan, Steele Roberts, Winter 2019
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review, War
Melody slithering through the misery, Martin Lodge
Good-bye Maoriland: The Songs and Sounds of New Zealand’s Great War Chris Bourke Auckland University Press, $60.00, ISBN 978869408718 For both civilians and the soldiers alike on active service during WWI, music proved a significant and enduring element of New…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Chris Bourke, Issue 124, Martin Lodge, Summer 2018
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Music, Non-fiction, Review
Getting the archive to the people, Matariki Williams
He Reo Wāhine: Māori Women’s Voices from the Nineteenth Century Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla Auckland University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781869408664 This book is weighty with expectation, what unfolds within its covers being immediately problematised by the title, He Reo…
Colliding pasts, Lydia Wevers
Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds Anne Salmond Auckland University Press, $65.00, ISBN 9781869408657 The cover blurb suggests Tears of Rangi is Anne Salmond’s “most ambitious book to date”, and in many respects this is the case, since in…
Tagged with: Anne Salmond, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2018, Issue 121
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction
Posted in History, Māori, Non-fiction
Championing indigenous art histories, Stella Ramage
Colonial Gothic to Māori Renaissance: Essays in Memory of Jonathan Mane-Wheoki Conal McCarthy and Mark Stocker (eds) Victoria University Press, $80.00, ISBN 9781776561094 The Gedenkschrift – essays by colleagues collected in posthumous commemoration of an esteemed academic – is an…
Tagged with: Autumn 2018, Conal McCarthy, Issue 121, Mark Stocker, Stella Ramage, Victoria University Press
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, History, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
A most “vigorous afterlife”, Roger Blackley
Gottfried Lindauer’s New Zealand: The Māori Portraits Ngahiraka Mason and Zara Stanhope (eds) Auckland University Press and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, $75.00, ISBN 9781869408565 This extremely elegant book, with its unusual, tall-and-thin “hyper-portrait” format, brings the artist Gottfried…
Tagged with: Gottfried Lindauer, Issue 118, Ngahiraka Mason, Roger Blackley, Winter 2017, Zara Stanhope
Posted in Art, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Art, Māori, Non-fiction, Review
Protect, promote, and attract an audience, Wayne Hope
Māori Television: The First Ten Years Jo Smith Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869408572 The birth of the Māori Television Service in March 2004 coincided with nationwide protests against the Labour government’s plan to entrench, legislatively, Crown ownership of the…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 118, Jo Smith, Wayne Hope, Winter 2017
Posted in Māori, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Māori, Media, Non-fiction, Review