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

Abstract

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.

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Title
Why C.K. Stead didn't like Keri Hulme's the bone people: Who can write as Other?
Creator
Fee, Margery
Publisher
Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada
Date Issued
1989
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.
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Subject
Maori identity; Keri Hulme; appearance and identity; racism; C.K. Stead; appropriaton of culture; identity and authenticity
Genre
Article
Type
Text
File Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Date Available
2009-08-05
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0074535
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11686
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; English, Department of
Citation
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.
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
Margery Fee
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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