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Immersion therapy, Ruth Brown

Posted on March 13, 1999 by NZ Books

Writing Along Broken Lines: Violence and Ethnicity in Contemporary Maori Fiction Otto Heim Auckland University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 86940 182 4 Both Sides of the Moon Alan Duff Vintage, $29.95, ISBN 1 86941 362 8 After retiring from journalism,…

Tagged with: Alan Duff, Auckland University Press, Issue 37, Otto Heim, Ruth Brown, Vintage
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Māori, Review

Contextualising Maori writing, Ruth Brown

Posted on June 8, 1996 by NZ Books

When Keri Hulme’s novel the bone people received international acclaim in 1975 I thought that we needed to ask questions about what western culture is doing when it deems “other” races to be still “spiritual”. It seemed that a version…

Tagged with: Issue 23, Ruth Brown, Spring 1996
Posted in Comment, Literature, Māori

Heed the tale, not the teller, Ruth Brown

Posted on December 1, 1992 by NZ Books

One Night Out Stealing Alan Duff, Tandem Press, $24.95 Affluence, it seems, is vindicated. Whereas Once Were Warriors exposed the anguish of the dispossessed, One Night Out Stealing is more concerned with reassurances for the well-to-do that their good fortune…

Tagged with: Alan Duff, Issue 7, Ruth Brown, Summer 1992, Tandem Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review