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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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Keywords
- 1960s
- Australasia
- Australasia, Oceania & other land areas
- Australasian & Pacific history
- Bill Pearson
- Geographical Qualifiers
- History
- Humanities
- Literary studies: general
- Literature
- Literature & literary studies
- Literature: history & criticism
- national history
- New Zealand
- New Zealand South Island
- Patrick O'Farrell
- Philip May
- Regional & national history
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history
- west coast of New Zealand
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DOI: 10.22459/PP.2020Editions