@Book{632746343, author="Majid, Nadia", title="'My mother was the earth, my father was the sky': myth and memory in Maori novels in English", year="2010", publisher="Lang", address="Oxford [u.a.]", keywords="Criticism and interpretation; Maori fiction; History and criticism; Myth in literature; Memory in literature; Maori (New Zealand people) in literature; New Zealand fiction; Maori authors; Identity (Psychology) in literature", contents="Maori writing in contemporary discourse -- Myth and memory: functions and methods -- Myth and the emergence of Maori identity -- Old tales for a new future: the use of myth in Maori fiction -- Memory in narrative: in search of a Maori identity -- He tuhinga pakimaero: the novels -- Te tumu: the foundations: what it means to be Maori -- Te poupou: the walls: occupying the new Maori space -- Te tahu: the roof: moving towards home -- The novel as re-interpreter of the past and guide to the future -- From a literature of survival to novels of empowerment and pioneering.", note="Nadia Majid", note="Literaturverz. S.[259] - 275 und Index", isbn="303430224X", language="English" }