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People and Place : The West Coast of New Zealand's South Island in History and Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: ANU.Lives series in biographyPublisher: Acton, Australian Capital Territory : ANU Press, 2020Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1760463450
  • 9781760463458
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: People and Place : The West Coast of New Zealand's South Island in History and LiteratureDDC classification:
  • 820.99371 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9629.6 .R534 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Region and Nation -- 3. Philip Ross May: Making a Goldfield: Populating a Wilderness -- 4. Patrick O'Farrell: The Reds and the Greens -- 5. Bill Pearson: 1908 and all that: Coal Flat -- 6. Beyond the 1960s I: Literary Reflections -- 7. Beyond the 1960s II: The Historians -- 8. Conclusion: Enduring Past -- Elusive Future -- Bibliography
Review: This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut off within New Zealand by the South Island's rugged Southern Alps, the West Coast was a land of gold, coal and timber. In the 1950s and 1960s, it nurtured a literature that embodied a sense of belonging to an Australasian world and captured the aspirations of New Zealand's emergent radical nationalism. More recent West Coast writers, observing the hollowing out of their communities, saw in miniature and in advance the growing gulf between city and regional economies aligned to an older economic order losing its relevance. Were they chronicling the last hurrah of a retreating age or crafting a literature of regional resistance?
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Region and Nation -- 3. Philip Ross May: Making a Goldfield: Populating a Wilderness -- 4. Patrick O'Farrell: The Reds and the Greens -- 5. Bill Pearson: 1908 and all that: Coal Flat -- 6. Beyond the 1960s I: Literary Reflections -- 7. Beyond the 1960s II: The Historians -- 8. Conclusion: Enduring Past -- Elusive Future -- Bibliography

This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut off within New Zealand by the South Island's rugged Southern Alps, the West Coast was a land of gold, coal and timber. In the 1950s and 1960s, it nurtured a literature that embodied a sense of belonging to an Australasian world and captured the aspirations of New Zealand's emergent radical nationalism. More recent West Coast writers, observing the hollowing out of their communities, saw in miniature and in advance the growing gulf between city and regional economies aligned to an older economic order losing its relevance. Were they chronicling the last hurrah of a retreating age or crafting a literature of regional resistance?

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205).

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