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Nō Ōrākau: Past and People in James Cowan's Places
In tracing the interconnections of place and people in James Cowan's writing, this article argues that his widely-disseminated body of work complicates current orthodoxies and warrants more consideration in the study of ...
Textual territories: Gendered cultural politics and Australian representations of the war of 1914–1918
If, having passed through the long courtyard where the walls are inscribed with the names of thousands of Australian war dead, you enter the inner sanctum of the Australian War Memorial, the Hall of Memory (quietly, as you ...
Rooms of Their Own: Public toilets and gendered citizens in a New Zealand city, 1860‐1940
Differences in the provision of public toilets for men and women point to the gendering of citizens. In the later nineteenth century, provision of public toilets in the city of Dunedin centered on the management of male ...
Point Chev boys and the landscapes of suburban memory: autobiographies of Auckland childhoods
This article uses a comparative analysis of two autobiographical texts to consider the ways in which the emotions and the imagination inform a sense of place. These autobiographies recount boyhoods in Point Chevalier, an ...
Poverty in the New World Dream: Families and Gender in Southern Dunedin, New Zealand, 1890-1920
This article considers how poverty was distributed among the different inhabitants of the southern suburbs of a New Zealand city, in the context particularly of motherhood, fatherhood, dependence and independence, childhood, ...
Poor Men in the Land of Promises: Settler Masculinity and the Male Breadwinner Economy in Late Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Married men and breadwinning were mutually implicit in Pakeha narratives of masculinity in nineteenth-century New Zealand. This article explores the idea that an implicit but important promise held out to immigrants from ...
"I A Isabel, You Know?": Antipodean Framing of Jane Campion's 'Portrait of a Lady'
If, as Jacqueline Rose argues, the unconscious dreams of nations have purpose and effect in the world, how can we approach an understanding of ourselves as national subjects–as creatures of these dreams? We trail behind ...
Talking About 'My Place'/My Place: Feminism, Criticism and the Other's Autobiography
A few years ago I edited an autobiography written in 1936 by a working- class New Zealand woman, Mary Lee's The Not So Poor. Setting out on a project of "restoring a voice," allowing the as yet unpublished speech of a ...
Televisual memory and the New Zealand Wars: Bicultural identities, masculinity and landscape
The 1998 documentary series The New Zealand Wars, based on James Belich’s revisionist monograph on New Zealand’s colonial wars, recalled these conflicts to Pākehā as well as Māori collective memory, and thereby confronted ...
Poverty, Dependence and ‘Women’: Reading Autobiography and Social Policy from 1930s New Zealand
This essay explores the construction of ‘women’ in New Zealand during the 1930s, when the social legislation of the First Labour Government was being formulated and enacted. It examines the documentation produced by the ...