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Telling the Real Story - Genre and New Zealand Literature (Paperback)
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Telling the Real Story - Genre and New Zealand Literature (Paperback)
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Telling the Real Story: Genre and New Zealand Literature
interrogates the relationships between genre and New Zealand
literature. What modes of writing have been deemed more appropriate
than others at particular times, and why? Why have some narratives
been interpreted as realist when there are significant aspects of
them that relate to other genres, such as romance, science fiction
and Gothic? What meanings are generated by the meeting points in a
text, where one mode meets another? What is at stake in writing,
for example, a New Zealand vampire novel or an art world thriller?
By rereading canonical texts and exploring writers who have been
sidelined because of their use of non-realist genre elements,
Telling the Real Story exposes the interplay of realism, Gothic,
fantasy, romance and melodrama within New Zealand narratives and
demonstrates that the apparently realist monolith of the national
literature is infinitely more diverse and exciting than it may
seem. Frank Sargeson, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Keri Hulme, Elizabeth
Knox and Eleanor Catton are among the major New Zealand writers
whose work is seen in fresh and exciting ways.
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