Why C.K. Stead didn't like Keri Hulme's the bone people: Who can write as Other?

Description

Stead argues that Hulme, with only one Maori great-grandparent, is not Maori enough to win a literary prize for Maori writing. The paper examines various means for dealing with the vexed question of how to judge whether someone of mixed ancestry can identify with the part of that ancestry that is a minority without risking appropriation of that culture. Hulme and the controversies surrounding her identity and her novel provide a useful focus.

Links & Downloads

1. Margery Fee. "Why C.K. Stead didn't like Keri Hulme's the bone people: Who can write as Other?" Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 1 (1989): 11-32.
2. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11686

Tags

Maori identity

Keri Hulme

appearance and identity

racism

C.K. Stead

appropriaton of culture

identity and authenticity

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/11686
Date	January 1989
Creators	Fee, Margery
Publisher	Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada
Source Sets	Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Rights	Margery Fee