Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-300) and index.
Contents
Introduction : marking the indigenous in indigenous minority texts -- Part I : A directed self-determination -- A marae on paper : writing a new Maori world in Te ao hou -- Indian truth : debating indigenous identity after Indians in the war -- Part II : An indigenous renaissance -- Rebuilding the ancestor: constructing self and community in the Maori renaissance -- Blood/land/memory : narrating indigenous identity in the American Indian renaissance -- Conclusion : declaring a fourth world.
Summary
'Blood Narrative' is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Indians, groups who share much in their responses to European settler colonialism.