Tales of Torment: Death, Nature, and Genre in Keri Hulme’s Short Story Collection Te Kaihau/The Windeater
This article engages in close reading of New Zealand Maori writer Keri Hulme's 1986 short fiction collection. It explores how she borrows from Western literary genres to create a syncretic literature of unease and build a universe where death and destruction are linked to an imbalance in the na...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2013-06-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/523 |
| Summary: | This article engages in close reading of New Zealand Maori writer Keri Hulme's 1986 short fiction collection. It explores how she borrows from Western literary genres to create a syncretic literature of unease and build a universe where death and destruction are linked to an imbalance in the natural world. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-9771 |