The eight short stories in Shorty examine themes including racism, oppression, conflict, social perception, miscommunication, struggles over meaning, truth and ethnic identity. New Zealand is a country reinventing itself from its colonial past (Wyn 2004 p. 277); identity-making in this country is a ‘dynamic process’ (Liu et al. 2005 p.11) which generates new cultural forms and practices. The concept of culture and subculture links the aforementioned themes in Shorty.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/281846 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Botur, Michael Stephen |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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