Revising the Settler Colonial Story in Albert Wendt’s Black Rainbow
Albert Wendt’s Black Rainbow (1992) has been read as an example of a postcolonial and postmodern novel by most literary scholars, as it is a narrative influenced by deconstructionist thinkers and located in New Zealand’s colonial history. However, I argue that the novel must also be understood as se...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2019
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | Albert Wendt’s Black Rainbow (1992) has been read as an example of a postcolonial and postmodern novel by most literary scholars, as it is a narrative influenced by deconstructionist thinkers and located in New Zealand’s colonial history. However, I argue that the novel must also be understood as settler colonial critique, which interrupts the settler story of conquest, settlement, and Indigenous erasure. Intervening in the stories of successful white settlement that deny a national history of colonial violence, Black Rainbow shatters the teleological presumption of a settler future. Wendt’s novel offers a decolonizing method of reading, which emphasizes re-readings, revisions, and choice, as well as Māori, Pacific Islander, and Pākehā solidarity. |
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