| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 205 pages) : illustrations. |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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ANU.Lives |
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ANU.Lives series in biography.
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| Note |
New Zealand content. |
| Summary |
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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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
New Zealand literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Authors, New Zealand -- 20th century -- Interviews.
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New Zealand -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Richardson, Len. People and place : the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island in history and literature. Acton, Australian Capital Territory : Australian National University Press, c2020 ix, 205 pages ANU.Lives series in biography. 9781760463441 (DLC) 2020447117 |
| ISBN |
9781760463441 |
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9781760463458 (e-book) |
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