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Almost all significant New Zealand novels have been published since 1960. Yet a substantial tradition of prose fiction extends back through the social realism of 1930–60 and Katherine Mansfield to an unusually accomplished body of colonial-period texts, notably Butler’s Erewhon. The stimulants of rapid growth in some other ‘Commonwealth’ literatures, such as increased literacy in English, expanding international attention and radically changing post-colonial perspectives, hardly apply in New Zealand. The energy has been generated within.
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Cherry Hankin (ed.), Critical Essays on the New Zealand Novel (Auckland: Heinemann, 1876).
Reed, Wellington, 1961. The lack of scholarly reference or survey material should be remedied by the forthcoming Oxford History of New Zealand Literature under the editorship of Terry Sturm. The best critical study is Lawrence Jones, Barbed Wire and Mirrors: Essays on New Zealand Prose (Dunedin: University of Otago, 1987).
See Bill Manhire, Maurice Gee (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1986), 30.
Lauris Edmond, Catching it (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1983);
Greg McGee, Foreskin’s Lament (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1981).
Mark Williams, ‘Literary Recession: New Zealand Fiction 1985-mid 1986’, in Journal of New Zealand Literature 5, 1987, 19.
Vincent O’Suilivan, ‘Introduction (Prose)’ to The Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Writing Since 1945 (Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1983), xxxii.
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Robinson, R. (1991). New Zealand. In: King, B. (eds) The Commonwealth Novel Since 1960. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-64112-3_7
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