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Analysis of Witi Ihimaeras 'The Whale Rider' on the Basis of Postcolonial Theory

Author : Nancy Reinhardt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009
ISBN : 9783640372164
Pages : 41 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Analysis of Witi Ihimaeras 'The Whale Rider' on the Basis of Postcolonial Theory written by Nancy Reinhardt and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,3, Technical University of Darmstadt (Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft), course: Postcolonial Literature, language: English, abstract: The Whale Rider novel is a positive and sensitive representation of Maori culture and several terms of postcolonial theory can be determined within the novel. That is why it appears worth analysing this text in the context of postcolonial literary studies which is the purpose of this term paper. In chapter 1 I will give a short summary about the colonial and postcolonial history of New Zealand and its postcolonial literature tradition. Chapter 2 deals with the novel ́s main characters and the narrative structure while chapter 3 detects the features of postcolonial theory which are embedded in the story.

The Whale Rider

Author : Witi Ihimaera
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Release Date : 2008-11-27
ISBN : 9781742287089
Pages : 129 pages
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Download or read book in PDF The Whale Rider written by Witi Ihimaera and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international bestseller that was made into a multiple award-winning film. Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is focused on his duties as chief of a Maori tribe in Whangara, on the East Coast of New Zealand - a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now there is no male heir - there's only Kahu. She should be the next in line for the title, but her great-grandfather is blinded by tradition and sees no use for a girl. Kahu will not be ignored. And in her struggle she has a unique ally: the whale rider himself, from whom she has inherited the ability to communicate with whales. Once that sacred gift is revealed, Kahu may be able to re-establish her people's ancestral connections, earn her great-grandfather's attention - and lead her tribe to a bold new future.

The Whale Rider

Author : Witi Ihimaera
Publisher : Penguin Books
Release Date : 2010
ISBN : 0143204386
Pages : 182 pages
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Download or read book in PDF The Whale Rider written by Witi Ihimaera and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duties as leader of a tribe that claims descent from the legendary 'whale rider'. In every generation since the whale rider, a male has inherited the title of chief. But now there is no male heir – only Kahu. Her great-grandfather is blinded by tradition and sees no use for a girl. But Kahu will not be ignored. In her struggle she has a unique ally: the whale rider himself.

Writing Along Broken Lines

Author : Otto Heim
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Release Date : 1998
ISBN : 1869401824
Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Writing Along Broken Lines written by Otto Heim and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the two decades from 1972, Swiss scholar Otto Heim presents detailed readings of the novels and short fiction by Heretaunga Pat Baker, Alan Duff, Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Bruce Stewart, J. C. Sturm, Apirana Taylor, and Ngahuia Te Awekotuku. His book places the fiction by Maori writers in the context of a culture of survival and traces its textual engagement with violence between empathy and sacrifice, from the privacy of domestic violence to the public arenas of systemic violence and war. He argues that out of this confrontation with violence emerges a distinctive ethnic world view created by the construction of individual experience, the development of an ideological stance and the expression of a spiritual orientation. Heim's analysis shows works of fiction by contemporary Maori writers as challenging explorations of the constraints placed on the literary imagination by the urgent facts of the human condition and the imperatives of culture.

Global Fragments

Author : Anke Bartels
Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 2007-01
ISBN : 9789042021822
Pages : 361 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Global Fragments written by Anke Bartels and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the world seems to be getting ever smaller and globalization has become the ubiquitous buzz-word, regionalism and fragmentation also abound. This might be due to the fact that, far from being the alleged production of cultural homogeneity, the global is constantly re-defined and altered through the local. This tension, pervading much of contemporary culture, has an obvious special relevance for the new varieties of English and the literature published in English world-wide. Postcolonial literatures exist at the interface of English as a hegemonic medium and its many national, regional and local competitors that transform it in the new English literatures. Thus any exploration of a globalization of cultures has to take into account the fact that culture is a complex field characterized by hybridization, plurality, and difference. But while global or transnational cultures may allow for a new cosmopolitanism that produces ever-changing, fluid identities, they do not give rise to an egalitarian 'global village' – an asymmetry between centre and periphery remains largely intact, albeit along new parameters.The essays collected in this volume offer readings of literary, theoretical, and filmic texts from the postcolonial world. These texts are read as attempts to articulate the global with the local from a perspective of immersion in the actual diversity of life-worlds, focusing on such issues as consumption, identity-politics, and modes of affiliation. In this sense, they are global fragments: locally refractured figurations of an experience of world-wide interconnectedness.

Coyote Wisdom

Author : Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Release Date : 2005-03
ISBN : 1591430291
Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Coyote Wisdom written by Lewis Mehl-Madrona and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the healing powers of stories passed down over time in Native American culture and describes how we can apply this wisdom to empower and transform our own lives. Original.

Touring the Screen

Author : Alfio Leotta
Publisher : Intellect Books
Release Date : 2011-01-01
ISBN : 9781841505848
Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Touring the Screen written by Alfio Leotta and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of prominent feature films shot on location, including TolkienOCOs wildly popular The Lord of the Rings, New Zealand boasts an impressive film tourism industry. This book examines the relationship between New ZealandOCOs cinematic representation - as both a vast expanse of natural beauty and a magical world of fantasy on screen - and its tourism imagery, including the ways in which savvy local tourism boards have in recent decades used the countryOCOs film representations to sell New Zealand as a premiere travel destination. Focusing on the films that have had a strong impact on marketing strategies by local tourist boards, Touring the Screen will be of interest to all those working and studying in the fields of cinema, postcolonial history, and tourism studies.

Global Indigenous Media

Author : Pamela Wilson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-08-06
ISBN : 9780822388692
Pages : 374 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Global Indigenous Media written by Pamela Wilson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe. Whether discussing Maori cinema in New Zealand or activist community radio in Colombia, the contributors describe how native peoples use both traditional and new media to combat discrimination, advocate for resources and rights, and preserve their cultures, languages, and aesthetic traditions. By representing themselves in a variety of media, Indigenous peoples are also challenging misleading mainstream and official state narratives, forging international solidarity movements, and bringing human rights violations to international attention. Global Indigenous Media addresses Indigenous self-representation across many media forms, including feature film, documentary, animation, video art, television and radio, the Internet, digital archiving, and journalism. The volume’s sixteen essays reflect the dynamism of Indigenous media-making around the world. One contributor examines animated films for children produced by Indigenous-owned companies in the United States and Canada. Another explains how Indigenous media producers in Burma (Myanmar) work with NGOs and outsiders against the country’s brutal regime. Still another considers how the Ticuna Indians of Brazil are positioning themselves in relation to the international community as they collaborate in creating a CD-ROM about Ticuna knowledge and rituals. In the volume’s closing essay, Faye Ginsburg points out some of the problematic assumptions about globalization, media, and culture underlying the term “digital age” and claims that the age has arrived. Together the essays reveal the crucial role of Indigenous media in contemporary media at every level: local, regional, national, and international. Contributors: Lisa Brooten, Kathleen Buddle, Cache Collective, Michael Christie, Amalia Córdova, Galina Diatchkova, Priscila Faulhaber, Louis Forline, Jennifer Gauthier, Faye Ginsburg, Alexandra Halkin, Joanna Hearne, Ruth McElroy, Mario A. Murillo, Sari Pietikäinen, Juan Francisco Salazar, Laurel Smith, Michelle Stewart, Pamela Wilson

Indigenous Identity in Witi Ihimaera's "Whale Rider" and Chinua Achebe's Fiction

Author : Annemarie Pabel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2011-12
ISBN : 9783656089612
Pages : 61 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Indigenous Identity in Witi Ihimaera's "Whale Rider" and Chinua Achebe's Fiction written by Annemarie Pabel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011. In both Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider indigenous identity is a central topic. Yet, it is challenged by the advent of colonization or, in the latter case, by the fusion of ancient tradition and modernism. As such, the aim of this paper is to analyse the literary representation of indigeneity in these novels using Stuart Hall's dual definition in order to show how indigenous identity develops at the backdrop of colonization and what this means for the concept of identity in a postcolonial context.

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Release Date : 2003
ISBN : 0740738348
Pages : 988 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004 written by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of every movie review the popular, Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic has done from January 2001 to mid-June 2003 includes the past year's interviews and essays, as well as reviews from all the major film festivals, his biweekly "Questions for the Movie Answer Man," and more. Original.

Youth Culture in Global Cinema

Author : Timothy Shary
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2007
ISBN : 9780292795747
Pages : 347 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Youth Culture in Global Cinema written by Timothy Shary and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature

Author : Charlotte Beyer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-11-01
ISBN : 9781527576834
Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature written by Charlotte Beyer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores contemporary children’s and young adult novels writing back to history and oppression. Divided into three distinct yet interconnected parts, this thematic study analyses selected novels from across the globe, drawing on current critical debates to investigate how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power and language. Examinations of children’s and young adult novels from Britain, Ireland, Sweden, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand offer fresh readings of established texts, and provide important critical perspectives on lesser-known works. The book also examines the use of genre in children’s and young adult literature, including crime fiction, dystopia, coming-of-age, and historical fiction. Addressing vital social justice themes in contemporary children’s and young adult novels, such as human trafficking, postcolonialism, disaster, trauma, and gender and race inequality, the book presents a critically informed analysis of these compelling literary works and their engagement with social and cultural debates.

Shared Waters

Author : Stella Borg Barthet
Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 2009-01
ISBN : 9789042027664
Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Shared Waters written by Stella Borg Barthet and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains general essays on: unequal African/Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe¿s wars; parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand; Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Moroccan, and diasporic Indian women¿s writing; community in post-Independence Maltese poetry in English; key novels of the Portuguese colonies; the TV series The Kumars at No. 42; fictional representations of India; the North in western Canadian writing; and a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature. As well as these, there is a selection of poems from Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, and Maria Grech Ganado, and essays providing close readings of works by the following authors and filmmakers: Thea Astley, George Elliott Clarke, Alan Duff, Francis Ebejer, Lorena Gale, Romesh Gunesekera, Sahar Khalīfah, Anthony Minghella, Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe, Salman Rushdie, Ghādah al-Sammān, Meera Syal, Lee Tamahori. Contributors: Leila Abouzeid, Hoda Barakat, Amrit Biswas, Thomas Bonnici, Stella Borg Barthet, Ivan Callus, Devon Campbell¿Hall, Saviour Catania, George Elliott Clarke, Brian Crow, Pilar Cuder¿Domínguez, Bärbel Czennia, Hilary P. Dannenberg, Pauline Dodgson¿Katiyo, Bernadette Falzon, Daphne Grace, Adrian Grima, Kifah Hanna, Janne Korkka, T. Vijay Kumar, Chantal Kwast¿Greff, Maureen Lynch Pèrcopo, Kevin Stephen Magri, Isabel Moutinho, Melanie A. Murray, Taiwo Oloruntoba¿Oju, Gerhard Stilz, Jesús Varela Zapata, Christine Vogt¿William. Stella Borg Barthet is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Malta. She is the author of papers and book chapters, mostly on Maltese, Australian, and African fiction. Her current research interests include North African and African-American writing.

New Zealand Cinema

Author : Alistair Fox
Publisher : Intellect Books
Release Date : 2011
ISBN : 9781841504254
Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book in PDF New Zealand Cinema written by Alistair Fox and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the analyses of select films of New Zealand, this title examines the role of the national cinema in nation-building, and explores how the signifying strategies of cinema have been harnessed to attribute meaning to this country's evolving history.

Aspects of Transnational and Indigenous Cultures

Author : Clara Shu-Chun Chang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-12
ISBN : 9781443873086
Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Aspects of Transnational and Indigenous Cultures written by Clara Shu-Chun Chang and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspects of Transnational and Indigenous Cultures addresses the issues of place and mobility, aesthetics and politics, as well as identity and community, which have emerged in the framework of Global/Transnational American and Indigenous Studies. With its ten chapters – contributions from the U.S., Germany, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan – the volume conceptualizes a comparative/trans-national paradigm for crossing over national, regional and international boundaries and, in so doing, to imagine a shared world of poetics and aesthetics in contemporary transnational scholarship.

Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand

Author : Alistair Fox
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-08
ISBN : 9781474429467
Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Coming-of-Age Cinema in New Zealand written by Alistair Fox and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New scholarly essays on the short story in English as a phenomenon of world literature

Visual Difference

Author : Elizabeth Heffelfinger
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2011
ISBN : 1433105950
Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book in PDF Visual Difference written by Elizabeth Heffelfinger and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, no text exists that focuses exclusively on the concept of postcolonial film as a framework for identifying films produced within and outside of various formerly colonized nations, nor is there a scholarly text that addresses pedagogical issues about and frameworks for teaching such films. This book borrows from and respects various forms of categorization - intercultural, global, third, and accented - while simultaneously seeking to make manifest an alternate space of signification. What feels like a mainstream approach is pedagogically necessary in terms of access, both financial and physical, to the films discussed herein, given that this text proposes models for teaching these works at the university and secondary levels. The focus of this work is therefore twofold: to provide the methodology to read and teach postcolonial film, and also to provide analyses in which scholars and teachers can explore the ways that the films examined herein work to further and complicate our understanding of «postcolonial» as a fraught and evolving theoretical stance.