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History, memory and representation, Alfio Leotta
The Camera in the Crowd: Filming New Zealand in Peace and War: 1895-1920 Christopher Pugsley Oratia Books, $80.00, ISBN 9780947506346 Filming the Colonial Past: The New Zealand Wars on Screen Annabel Cooper University of Otago Press, $50.00, ISBN 9781988531083 As…
Tagged with: Alfio Leotta, Christopher Pugsley, Issue 126, Oratia Books, University of Otago Press, Winter 2019
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in History, Media, Non-fiction, Review
Mystery, wisdom and complication, Gregory O’Brien
The Lives of Coat Hangers Sudesh Mishra University of Otago Press, $25.00, ISBN 9781927322376 “A thing is a hole in a thing it is not.” I was reminded of American sculptor Carl Andre’s words, as I read Sudesh Mishra’s remarkable…
Tagged with: Gregory O’Brien, Issue 115, Spring 2016, Sudesh Mishra, University of Otago Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Printer’s ink in the veins, Vincent O’Sullivan
Eyewitness: A Memoir of Europe in the 1930s Geoffrey Cox University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 877133 70 1 Sir Geoffrey Cox turns 91 this year, the last of that remarkable roll-call of New Zealanders whose only way out…
Tagged with: Geoffrey Cox, Issue 43, University of Otago Press, Vincent O’Sullivan
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Open and closed research Peter Munz
Decolonizing Methodologies. Research and Indigenous Peoples Linda Tuhiwai Smith University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 877133 67 1 This book is likely to obfuscate politico-social debates in New Zealand because it maintains that acquiring knowledge about indigenous peoples, as…
Tagged with: Issue 41, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Peter Munz, University of Otago Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Sociology
Interesting exercise in failure, Jane Stafford
The Story of a New Zealand Writer: Jane Mander Rae McGregor University of Otago Press, $34.95, ISBN 1 877133 37 X Name the New Zealand woman writer, born in the late 19th century to a prosperous middle-class family, with an…
Tagged with: Issue 38, Jane Stafford, Rae McGregor, University of Otago Press
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Literature, Non-fiction, Review
Checking out Gen X, Sarah Quigley
The NeXt Wave Mark Pirie (ed) University of Otago Press $24.95 IBSN 1877133 44 2 At the Wearable Arts Awards in Nelson this year, there was a lot of congratulatory talk about how far New Zealand has come in the…
Tagged with: Issue 36, Mark Pirie, Sarah Quigley, University of Otago Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Review
Boxed in, Kathryn Walls
The Power of Place: Landscape in New Zealand Children‘s Fiction Diane Hebley University of Otago Press $39.95 ISBN 1 8771 33 47 7 Diane Hebley’s useful introduction to New Zealand writing for children, Off the SIMM was published in 1980.…
Tagged with: Diane Hebley, Issue 35, Kathryn Walls, University of Otago Press
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Posted in Children, Literature, Review
Paying the price of principle, Margaret Wilson
Stick Out, Keep Left: an autobiography by Margaret Thorn Elsie Locke and Jacquie Matthews (ed) Auckland University Press/ Bridget Williams Books $29.95 ISBN 1 86940143 3 She Dared to Speak – Connie Birchfield’s Story Maureen Birchfield University of Otago Press…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Bridget Williams Books, Elsie Locke, Issue 35, Jacquie Matthews, Margaret Wilson, Maureen Birchfield, University of Otago Press
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review