The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature

by Jane Stafford (Editor), Mark Williams (Editor)

Overview

From the earliest records of exploration and encounter to the globalized, multicultural present, this compilation features New Zealand's major writing, from Polynesian mythology to the Yates' Garden Guide, from Allen Curnow to Alice Tawhai, and from Wiremu Te Rangikaheke's letters to Katherine Mansfield's notebooks. Including fiction, nonfiction, letters, speeches, novels, stories, comics, and songs, this imaginative selection provides new paths into New Zealand writing and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775581666
Publisher:	Auckland University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1248
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Jane Stafford is an associate professor at Victoria University and the coeditor of Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction. Mark Williams is professor at Victoria University and the author of Post-colonial Literatures in English: Southeast Asia, New Zealand and the Pacific.  They are coauthors of Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914 and coeditors of “The World Novel to 1950” volume of The Oxford History of the Novel in English.