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'My blarsted greenstone throne!' Māori princesses and nationhood in New Zealand fiction for girls
This chapter focuses on Isabel Peacocke’s The Runaway Princess (1929) and Mona Tracy’s short story collection, Piriki’s Princess and Other Stories of New Zealand (1925), which incorporates a swathe of princesses, Māori and Pākehā. The princesses to be discussed in this chapter occupy liminal states: between Māori and Pākehā, child and adult, individual and collective subjects. Whether Māori and Pākehā, they figure in narratives of identity-formation that implicitly or explicitly incorporated comparisons between Māori and Pākehā. This chapter tracks this continuum of representations working from Māori to Pākehā and beginning with two Māori princesses who feature in Tracy’s stories ‘A Deserted Settlement’ and ‘Four Tons of Flax’.
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Colonial girlhood in literature, culture and history, 1840-1950Series
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and cultureChapter number
7Pagination
95 - 109Publisher
Palgrave MacmillanPlace of publication
Basingstoke, EnglandPublisher DOI
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9781137356345ISBN-10
1137356340Language
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2014, Palgrave MacmillanExtent
16Editor/Contributor(s)
K Moruzi, M SmithUsage metrics
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