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Author Bones, Helen, author.

Title The Expatriate Myth : New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World / Helen Bones.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Otago University Press, [2019]
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Summary Many New Zealand writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century traveled extensively or lived overseas for a time. In The Expatriate Myth , Helen Bones presents a challenge to this conventional understanding that writers had to leave in order to find literary inspiration and publishing opportunities. Was it actually necessary for them to leave to find success? How prevalent was expatriatism among New Zealand writers? Did their experiences fit the usual tropes about expatriatism and exile? Were they fleeing an oppressive society lacking in literary opportunity? In the field of literary studies, scholars are often consumed with questions about 'national' literature and 'what it means to be a New Zealander'. And yet many of New Zealand's writers living overseas operated in a transnational way, taking advantage of colonial networks in a way that belies any notion of a single national allegiance. Most who left New Zealand continued to write about and interact with their homeland, and in many cases came back. In this fascinating and clear-sighted book, Helen Bones offers a fresh perspective on some hoary New Zealand literary chestnuts.
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Subject Authors, New Zealand -- 19th century.
Authors, New Zealand -- 20th century.
Authors, New Zealand -- Great Britain.
Literature and society -- Commonwealth countries -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and society -- Commonwealth countries -- History -- 20th century.
National characteristics, New Zealand, in literature.
New Zealand literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
New Zealand literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9781988531465 (epub)
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