Māori Cultural and Bodily Rebirth in Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors Trilogy
This article examines what happens in Alan Duff’s trilogy, Once Were Warriors (1990-2002), to the Western novelistic device of individualisation of characters that takes its roots in the European Renaissance. In Duff’s novels, the development of characters is reconfigured through their relation to o...
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| Argitaratua izan da: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Formatua: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Hizkuntza: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Gaia: | This article examines what happens in Alan Duff’s trilogy, Once Were Warriors (1990-2002), to the Western novelistic device of individualisation of characters that takes its roots in the European Renaissance. In Duff’s novels, the development of characters is reconfigured through their relation to others as they experience a form of cultural and bodily rebirth in their own community. The trilogy thus offers an alternative to traditional Western characterisation, by deploying other ways of constructing subjectivity. |
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