The Maori House of Fiction

Orr, Bridget

doi:10.1215/9780822396505-003

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“…1944) staged a dialogue with Mansfield in his collection Dear Miss Mansfield (Ihimaera 1989). Scholars such as Janet Wilson (2013), Mark Williams (2000), Bridget Orr (1995), Ian Gordon (1993), Elleke Boehmer (2011) and Saikat Majumdar (2013, 71-99) have subsequently considered how Mansfield critically reframed literary modernism by infusing this metropolitan literary movement with colonial themes and experience. Moving beyond the Anglophone construction of a writer with an at best attenuated relationship to her colonial roots, this article engages with the ongoing postcolonial rereading of Mansfield by inquiring into how her representation of New Zealand's native inhabitants illuminates settler coloniality's aesthetic forms.…”

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The Aesthetic Terrain of Settler Colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov's Natives

Gould

2018

SSRN Journal

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While Anton Chekhov's influence on Katherine Mansfield is widely acknowledged, the two writers' settler colonial aesthetics have not been brought into systematic comparison. Yet Chekhov's chronicle of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East parallels in important ways Mansfield's near-contemporaneous account of colonial life in New Zealand. Both writers are concerned with a specific variant of the colonial situation: settler colonialism, which prioritizes appropriation of land over the governance of peoples. This article considers the aesthetic strategies each writer develops for capturing that milieu within the framework of the settler colonial aesthetics that has guided much anthropological engagement with endangered peoples.

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