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‘Sheddings of light’: Patricia Grace and Māori Short Fiction

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This chapter offers an overview of Māori short fiction in English published in Aotearoa/New Zealand from the early 1970s to the present, focusing in particular on the work of Patricia Grace, one of the most prolific and influential Māori short story writers. The chapter contextualizes Grace’s work alongside that of other influential ‘first-generation’ Māori short fiction writers such as Witi Ihimaera (also an editor of multiple volumes of Māori fiction), as well as more recent or ‘emerging’ writers such as Alice Tawhai.

The author wishes to thank the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland for funding that enabled her to undertake research for this chapter in New Zealand.

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  1. Imperial College, London, UK

    Maggie Awadalla (Coordinator of Arabic) (Coordinator of Arabic)

  2. University of Kent, UK

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Keown, M. (2013). ‘Sheddings of light’: Patricia Grace and Māori Short Fiction. In: Awadalla, M., March-Russell, P. (eds) The Postcolonial Short Story. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137292087_3

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