The Parihaka Woman

The Parihaka Woman PDF Author: Witi Ihimaera
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1869797302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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A wonderfully surprising, inventive and deeply moving riff on fact and fiction, history and imagination from one of New Zealand's finest and most memorable storytellers. There has never been a New Zealand novel quite like The Parihaka Woman. Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact and fiction, it sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s and 1880s. Parihaka is the place Erenora calls home, a peaceful Taranaki settlement overcome by war and land confiscation. As her world is threatened, Erenora must find within herself the strength, courage and ingenuity to protect those whom she loves. And, like a Shakespearean heroine, she must change herself before she can take up her greatest challenge and save her exiled husband, Horitana.

The Parihaka Woman

The Parihaka Woman PDF Author: Witi Ihimaera
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1869797302
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Book Description
A wonderfully surprising, inventive and deeply moving riff on fact and fiction, history and imagination from one of New Zealand's finest and most memorable storytellers. There has never been a New Zealand novel quite like The Parihaka Woman. Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact and fiction, it sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s and 1880s. Parihaka is the place Erenora calls home, a peaceful Taranaki settlement overcome by war and land confiscation. As her world is threatened, Erenora must find within herself the strength, courage and ingenuity to protect those whom she loves. And, like a Shakespearean heroine, she must change herself before she can take up her greatest challenge and save her exiled husband, Horitana.

The Forgotten Coast

The Forgotten Coast PDF Author: Richard Shaw
Publisher: Massey University Press
ISBN: 0995146527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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&‘You approach family stories with caution and care, especially when a thing long forgotten is uncovered in the telling.'In this deft memoir, Richard Shaw unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Taranaki which had been confiscated from its owners and sold to his great-grandfather, who had been with the Armed Constabulary when it invaded Parihaka on 5 November 1881.Honest, and intertwined with an examination of Shaw's relationship with his father and of his family's Catholicism, this book's key focus is urgent: how, in a decolonizing world, Pakeha New Zealanders wrestle with, and own, the privilege of their colonial pasts.

The Dream Swimmer

The Dream Swimmer PDF Author: Witi Ihimaera
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742288693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 559

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'Eleven years have passed since that winter of 1986 when I put down my pen on the story of the woman who wore pearls in her hair, my grandmother the matriarch, Riripeti Mahana nee Pere, whom some called Artemis . . .' So begins The Dream Swimmer, Witi Ihimaera's gripping sequel to The Matriarch, acclaimed winner of the Wattie Award. The Dream Swimmer continues the odyssey of Tama Mahana, grandson and heir to the matriarch, as he assumes the mantle of leadership and, with it, his grandmother's battles with the Pakeha. But at every step Tama is thwarted – by deception and intrigue, and by the woman whose destiny has intersected Riripeti's and his. She is the enigmatic Tiana, his mother, the woman of no account. Ihimaera continues to dazzle as he negotiates this story of great breadth and breathtaking climaxes, combining the heart of his early work with the deft experimentalism of his more recent novels and short stories. At once an incisive character study and a deeply moving family saga, The Dream Swimmer is sure to enchant and delight. 'Part oracle, part memorialist, Ihimaera is an inspired voice, weaving many stories together. The effect if epic, operatic., - David Eggleton, Metro Also available as an eBook

Woman Far Walking

Woman Far Walking PDF Author: Witi Ihimaera
Publisher: Huia Publishers
ISBN: 9781877241512
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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"The themes of Woman far walking involve the survival, struggles and resilience of the Maori people, as shown through the life of one woman"--Introd.

The Little Kowhai Tree

The Little Kowhai Tree PDF Author: Witi Ihimaera
Publisher: Huia Publishers
ISBN: 9781877283642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
A humorous tale with a surprising ending, Witi Ihimaera's inaugural children's book is set in a Grimm-fairytale forest in New Zealand.

Maori Boy

Maori Boy PDF Author: Witi Ihimaera
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1869797272
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505

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This is the first volume of Witi Ihimaera's enthralling, award-winning memoir, packed with stories from the formative years of this much-loved writer. Witi Ihimaera is a consummate storyteller — one critic calling him one of our ‘finest and most memorable’. Some of his best stories, however, are about his own life. This honest, stirring work tells of the family and community into which Ihimaera was born, of his early life in rural New Zealand, of family secrets, of facing anguish and challenges, and of laughter and love. As Ihimaera recounts the myths that formed his early imagination, he also reveals the experiences from real life that wriggled into his fiction. Alive with an inventive, stimulating narrative and vividly portrayed relatives, this memoir is engrossing, entertaining and moving, but, more than this, it is also a vital record of what it means to grow up Maori. Winner of the Ockham New Zealand Book Award 2016 for the General Non Fiction category.

The Parihaka Cult

The Parihaka Cult PDF Author: Kerry Bolton
Publisher: Black House Publishing
ISBN: 9781910881682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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'The events that took place in and around Parihaka particularly from about 1860 to 1900 have affected the political, cultural and spiritual dynamics of the entire country'. - Human Rights Commission, 2010 Over the past forty-years or so, we in New Zealand have watched our history being systematically re-invented, not based upon documented evidence of real-events that actually occurred on the ground, but solely to serve a modern-day need for made-to-order propaganda. One of the foremost of the churned-out, manufactured-myths surrounds the mid-19th century creation of a cultist-community called 'Parihaka', now represented, in typical Marxist-speak, as some kind of a Gandhi-inspiring bastion of righteousness and (yawn) passive-resistance against imperialist tyranny. The 'colonial invasion' of Parihaka in 1881 and the arrest of its self-styled 'prophets' Te Whiti and Tohu, have become a major part of the New Zealand narrative that has been revised to inculcate a guilt complex into European, especially British-descended, New Zealanders in the interests of tribal agendas. As such, the Parihaka legend ranks alongside America's 'Wounded Knee' and South Africa's 'Sharpeville' as part of a world-wide offensive against the past, present and future of European-descended peoples. Dr Kerry Bolton delves deeply into the huge body of extant historical documentation, contemporary to Parihaka's founding prophet, and lays the entire, lame-fantasy bare for all to see.

Bulibasha

Bulibasha PDF Author: Witi Ihimaera
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1742288103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Caught in the middle of the clash between two great Maori clans, Simeon, grandson of Bulibasha and Ramona, struggles with his own feelings and loyalties as the battles rage . . . This award-winning novel is being reissued to tie in with the release of Mahana, the stunning film adaptation of the novel. Also available as an eBook

The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie

The Many Deaths of Mary Dobie PDF Author: David Murray Hastings
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775588173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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‘Dreadful murder at Opunake', said the Taranaki Herald, ‘Shocking outrage', cried the Evening Post in Wellington when they learned in November 1880 that a young woman called Mary Dobie had been found lying under a flax bush near Opunake on the Taranaki coast with her throat cut so deep her head was almost severed. In the midst of tensions between Maori and Pakeha in 1880, the murder ignited questions: Pakeha feared it was an act of political terrorism in response to the state's determination to take the land of the tribes in the region. Maori thought it would be the cue for the state to use force against them, especially the pacifist settlement at Parihaka. Was it rape or robbery, was the killer Maori or Pakeha? In this book, David Hastings takes us back to that lonely road on the Taranaki coast in nineteenth-century New Zealand to unravels the many deaths of Mary Dobie – the murder, the social tensions in Taranaki, the hunt for the killer and the lessons that Maori and Pakeha learnt about the murder and about themselves.

Women Now

Women Now PDF Author: Bronwyn Labrum
Publisher: Te Papa Thinking about
ISBN: 9780994146007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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TWELVE DYNAMIC ESSAYS BY LEADING NEW ZEALAND THINKERS MARK125 YEARS SINCE NEW ZEALAND WON THE RIGHT TO VOTEIt's 125 years since New Zealand women won the right to vote. But the battlefor the right to so much else is ongoing. This first volume in the Te Papa'Thinking About' series is published to mark the 125th anniversary of suffrage,and brings together provocative, insightful and energetically argued essaysby 12 leading New Zealand writers and thinkers, based around objects fromTe Papa's collection.Sandra Coney, Holly Walker, Barbara Brookes, Tina Makereti, Sue Bradford,Morgan Godfery, Golriz Ghahraman, Dame Fiona Kidman, Ben Schrader,Charlotte MacDonald, Grace Taylor and Megan Whelan examine how New Zealandwomen have fared since 1893.