Contents

pp v-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-14

PART I - 1760–1920

pp 15-16

1 - A World of Waters: Imagining, Voyaging, Entanglement

pp 17-30

2 - Early Māori Literature: The Writing of Hakaraia Kiharoa

pp 31-43

3 - Samuel Butler's Influence

pp 44-55

4 - Maoriland Reservations

pp 56-70

5 - Katherine Mansfield: Colonial Modernist

pp 71-82

PART II - 1920–1950

pp 83-84

6 - Colonial Ecologies: Guthrie-Smith's Tutira and Writing in the Settled Environment

pp 85-97

7 - Defiance and Melodrama: Fiction in the Period of National ‘Invention’, 1920–1950

pp 98-111

8 - Journalism and High Culture: Robin Hyde among the Cultural Nationalists

pp 112-124

9 - ‘Simply by Sailing in a New Direction’: The Poetics of Distance

pp 125-137

10 - ‘Rough Architects’: New Zealand Literature and Its Institutions from Phoenix to Landfall

pp 138-150

PART III - 1950–1972

pp 151-152

11 - Against the Social Pattern: New Zealand Fiction, 1950–1970

pp 153-166

12 - Janet Frame: Myths of Authorship, 1950–1990

pp 167-181

13 - Te Ao Hou: Te Pataka

pp 182-194

14 - Out of the Drawing Room and onto the Beach: Drama, 1950–1970

pp 195-207

15 - ‘Physician of Society’: The Poet in the 1950s and 1960s

pp 208-224

PART IV - 1972–1990

pp 225-226

16 - From Hiruharama to Hataitai: The Domestication of New Zealand Poetry, 1972–1990

pp 227-245

17 - The Novel, the Short Story, and the Rise of a New Reading Public, 1972–1990

pp 246-261

18 - ‘DBed and chocolate wheaten beaten’: Drama Defining the Nation, 1972–1990

pp 262-276

19 - The Māori Renaissance from 1972

pp 277-288

PART V - 1990–2014

pp 289-290

20 - ‘While History Happens Elsewhere’: Fiction and Political Quietism, 1990–2014

pp 291-310