Mapping the Godzone
a primer on New Zealand literature and culture
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Author
Publication
1998 - University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, Hawaii
Language
English
Word Count
49,250 words, Guess
Page Count
197 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL350795M
- ISBN-100824820169
- OCLC Control Number38311522
- OCLC Control Numbermappinggodzonepr00scha
- Library of Congress Control Number98010181
and 2 more
- Goodreads1187290
- LibraryThing4226705
Classifications
- DDC820.9/993
- LCCPR9624.3 .S33 1998
Description
William Schafer read, and dreamed, about New Zealand before his first visit in 1995. Mapping the Godzone grew out of that visit and his attempts, as an American, to focus his impressions of New Zealand's literary culture and relate its mental and moral landscape to that of the United States. Through an idiosyncratic selection of contemporary novels and films, Schafer opens up a complex and compelling world. Readers will encounter internationally celebrated writers such as Witi Ihimaera, Fiona Kidman, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, Maurice Shadbolt, Albert Wendt, Alan Duff, Keri Hulme, Patricia Grace, Ian Wedde, and Janet Frame; and the emerging New Zealand film industry and the handful of directors (among them Jane Campion, Peter Jackson, Vincent Ward, and Geoff Murphy) who have created a vital cinema renaissance since the 1970s.
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