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(An abstract for a paper to be presented at the LALALAND Conference.)
My paper will explore the various texts of identity, representation and construction as presented in eighteen selected New Zealand novels, films and poetic works. In so doing it will try to engage with the semiotics of contact and the various diasporic, immigrant, exilic and expatriate notions of this country, alternatively known as the Land of the Wrong White Crowd. The alternative realities, asymmetries and linguistic aesthetics of Pakeha New Zealand and their textual collisions with the Maori race will also be explored, much as Shashi Tharoor has done for India in his seminal revisionist, eclectic and postmodernist work, The Ingrate's Indian Novel. My paper is offered in homage from one subversive to another. The selected New Zealand texts are:
| Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing
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