For Was I Not Born Here? : Identity and Culture in the Work of Yvonne du Fresne.
This study centres on the fiction of the New Zealand writer Yvonne du Fresne, the descendant of Danish and Danish-Huguenot families who emigrated to New Zealand in the late-nineteenth century and settled in the Manawatu area. It explores how memories of the past haunt generations of immigrants, and...
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2010
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| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Identities in Dialogue in the Work of Yvonne du Fresne; 2 The Danish Settlement in New Zealand; 3 "Was I not born here?"; 4 Bicultural Discursive Identities in Frdrique; 5 Astrid the Spy New Zealand Childhood Tales; 6 Stories of Adulthood; 7 Understanding At Last Where Motherland Is; Conclusion; Works Cited. | |
| 520 | |a This study centres on the fiction of the New Zealand writer Yvonne du Fresne, the descendant of Danish and Danish-Huguenot families who emigrated to New Zealand in the late-nineteenth century and settled in the Manawatu area. It explores how memories of the past haunt generations of immigrants, and how issues of language, politics, and social norms live on through generations, affecting the formation of new identities and homes. Is it only, as with Astrid in Motherland, that by returning to our roots we can finally feel that we are at home in more than one country? As Lauris Edmond writes, du. | ||
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