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oapen-20.500.12657-375972020-05-08T00:40:58Z People and Place Richardson, Len New Zealand Philip May Patrick O'Farrell Bill Pearson west coast of New Zealand New Zealand South Island 1960s literature national history bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJM Australasian & Pacific history bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1M Australasia, Oceania & other land areas::1MB Australasia::1MBN New Zealand "This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut off within New Zealand by the South Island’s rugged Southern Alps, the West Coast was a land of gold, coal and timber. In the 1950s and 1960s, it nurtured a literature that embodied a sense of belonging to an Australasian world and captured the aspirations of New Zealand’s emergent radical nationalism. More recent West Coast writers, observing the hollowing out of their communities, saw in miniature and in advance the growing gulf between city and regional economies aligned to an older economic order losing its relevance. Were they chronicling the last hurrah of a retreating age or crafting a literature of regional resistance? " 2020-05-07T09:50:30Z 2020-05-07T09:50:30Z 2020 book http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37597 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International peopleandplace.pdf https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/anu-lives-series-biography/people-and-place# ANU Press 10.22459/PP.2020 10.22459/PP.2020 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 216 open access
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"This book traces the enduring relationship between history, people and place that has shaped the character of a single region in a manner perhaps unique within the New Zealand experience. It explores the evolution of a distinctive regional literature that both shaped and was shaped by the physical and historical environment that inspired it. Looking westwards towards Australia and long shut off within New Zealand by the South Island’s rugged Southern Alps, the West Coast was a land of gold, coal and timber. In the 1950s and 1960s, it nurtured a literature that embodied a sense of belonging to an Australasian world and captured the aspirations of New Zealand’s emergent radical nationalism. More recent West Coast writers, observing the hollowing out of their communities, saw in miniature and in advance the growing gulf between city and regional economies aligned to an older economic order losing its relevance. Were they chronicling the last hurrah of a retreating age or crafting a literature of regional resistance?
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