Spiritcarvers: Interviews with Eighteen Writers from New ZealandRodopi, 1998 - 223 páginas In a land caught between the sea and cloud, where the natural landscape still refuses civilization, there are those; the composers of words, tellers of tales, that help shape the minds of the people that live on its shores. They are spiritcarvers. New Zealand writing today is engaging in an intent struggle to subvert multiple shapes into voices. These interviews, as a record of biographical orature, are shaped into presenting the figure of the storyteller through memory and language; explorations of how we imagine and create ourselves with and into words. Here we encounter the dichotomy of fiction and non-fiction, myth and consensual reality, imagination and truth: do we live within our own selected fictions? Identity is shaped by the authors' sense of displacement as well as of belonging - meeting otherness with dispossession, discovering connection through isolation. Among the focal points of the interviews are the role of women's writing, Maori writing, interrelations among different cultures, and the influence of literary and oral tradition within New Zealand. |
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Spiritcarvers: Interviews with Eighteen Writers from New Zealand Antonella Sarti Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
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Página 8 - No man is an Hand, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a...
Página 142 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific— and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise— Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Página 15 - Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past.
Página 7 - ... of themselves and others, Giving and taking, in the usual actions What there is to give and take. They do not repine; Are contented with the morning that separates And with the evening that brings together For casual talk before the fire Two people who know they do not understand each other, Breeding children whom they do not understand And who will never understand them.
Página 74 - It gives me unison with the universe. It tells me that I am not alone or ever will be. It weaves me into a pattern of life that began at world's creation and will be here till world's end. I am the people who came before me and I am the people who will come after me.
Página 208 - The quest for the self is eventually determined by the quest for the group. The self can only be whole and strong when linked to others and defined in relation to others - the whole environment, society, and cosmos. In Samoa we talk of the self in terms of itu, sides - we perceive others in their multi-sidedness. You can only be whole/complete when those sides - loto, nmsalo, finagalo, poto and atamai - are in harmony.
Página 14 - Part of my trouble is that for the first half of my life I denied my Polynesian heritage, and recognized only my European side. I was divided; and this was to land me in a psychiatric hospital. I came right when I recognized what had been troubling me, and with recognition came understanding and forgiveness. I forgave my parents for dying young and abandoning me, and I trusted that my ancestors would forgive me for slighting them. My poem "Forgiveness" 2 was crucial in my recovery.
Página 210 - I've been persuaded by the new physics and Samoan philosophy that there is only an ever-moving present - I use that concept in Black Rainbow. For us also, the future is past; we look to our ancestors and the principles they lived by to guide our lives. Time is a continuum that changes as a unity if we alter a part of it; reality is also that way.