The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature

Jane Stafford, Mark Williams

Auckland University Press, 2012 - Literary Collections - 1162 pages

"From Polynesian Mythology to the Yates' Garden Guide, from Allen Curnow to Alice Tawhai, from Jessie Mackay to Alison Wong, from Julius Vogel to Albert Wendt, from the letters of Wiremu Te Rangikaheke to the notebooks of Katherine Mansfield - Māori, Pākehā, Pasifika, and Asian New Zealanders have struggled for two and a half centuries to work the English language into some sort of truth about this place. The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature brings together for the first time in one volume this country's major writing, from the earliest records of exploration and encounter to the globalised, multicultural present. Editors Jane Stafford and Mark Williams range across novels and stories, poems and plays, letters and diaries, comics and songs to collect the defining stuff of our literary heritage. The contents will delight and provoke: Erewhon and The Heart of the Bush; Man Alone and 'No Ordinary Sun'; The God Boy and Hicksville; 'The Gumboot Song' and The Vintner's Luck. Through an imaginative selection and illuminating introductions, Stafford and Williams provide new paths into our writing and our country"--Publisher information.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature
• Editors: Jane Stafford, Mark Williams
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Auckland University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 1869405897, 9781869405892
• Length: 1162 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / General; Literary Criticism / Australian & Oceanian; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / General