Beyond Borders: New Zealand Literature in the Global Marketplace

This book explores the global/local tensions and intersections in Aotearoa New Zealand's literary production through its engagement in the global marketplace. It combines postcolonial and world literature methodologies to chart the global relocation of national culture, considering Aotearoa New Zealand's history as a white settler colony and its status as a bicultural nation. Topics and authors include colonial New Zealand literature, exotic reading, landscape novels, Indian Ink Theatre company, globalization of the New Zealand short story, teaching Māori literature, Commonwealth writers, and the afterlife of Allen Curnow.

Format: Hardback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the intricate interplay of global and local factors in the literary production of Aotearoa New Zealand, exploring its engagement with the global marketplace. By employing postcolonial and world literature methodologies, contributors chart the global relocation of national culture from the nineteenth century to the present, examining the diverse meanings of New Zealand literature in various creative, teaching, and publishing contexts. They identify ongoing global entanglements with local identities and tensions between national and post-national literary discourses, considering Aotearoa New Zealand's history as a white settler colony and its status as a bicultural nation and a key player in the Asia-Pacific region. Active on the global stage, the country's literature reflects its unique position.

The book explores a range of topics and authors, including:

Stefanie Herades examines colonial New Zealand literature and its relationship with the global marketplace.
Claudia Marquis explores David Hares Aotearoa series as exotic reading for adolescents.
Paloma Fresno-Calleja analyzes the exoticizing landscape novels of Sarah Lark.
James Wenley discusses Indian Ink Theatre company as a hybrid export.
Janet M. Wilson explores the globalization of the New Zealand short story.
Chris Prentice explores pedagogic articulations of New Zealand literature.
Leonie John discusses the challenges of teaching Māori literature in Germany.
Dieter Riemenschneider explores New Zealand literature at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Paula Morris examines Commonwealth writers and the Booker Prize.
Selina Tusitala Marsh explores contemporary Pasifika poetry.
Chris Miller explores the afterlife of Allen Curnow.

These chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, further adding to the richness and depth of the analysis.

Weight: 490g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032204055