This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global marketplace.
Paloma Fresno-Calleja is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, where she teaches postcolonial literatures. She specialises in the postcolonial literatures of Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region, on which she has published widely.
Janet M. Wilson is Emerita Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. She has published widely on the literary and visual cultures of Aotearoa New Zealand and has a research interest in diasporic, transnational writing. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
1. Introduction: New Zealand literature and the global marketplace, 2. Colonial New Zealand literature in the global marketplace: Then and now, 3. The Adolescent Exotic: Reading New Zealand in David Hair's "Aotearoa series" (2009-2014), 4. Sarah Lark's landscape novels and the "New Zealand exotic", 5. Indian Ink via New Zealand Inc.: Hybrid exports for the global theatre marketplace, 6. From national to global: Writing and translating the Aotearoa New Zealand short story, 7. Articulating New Zealand and literature in "New Zealand literature" classes: Attending to the parergon, 8. Teaching Maori Literature as a Tauiwi scholar: A German case study, 9. On sale: Aotearoa New Zealand literature in Germany, 10. The "leftovers of empire": Commonwealth writers and the Booker Prize, 11. Contemporary Pasifika Poetry in Aotearoa New Zealand: An interview with Selina Tusitala Marsh, 12. Allen Curnow: The life of the poems