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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/246389
Date January 2009
CreatorsBotur, Michael Stephen
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish

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