Papers of Contest

Papers of Contest
Peter Cleave
ISBN
978-1-877229-21-3
Campus Press
26 Sycamore Crescent
Palmerston North

Introduction

The theme of this collection of papers is contest. There is a challenge in each paper.

In the first paper conventional research is challenged with an idea of indigenous modes of inquiry.

The next paper looks at confrontational theatre and film in the 1990s.

The discussion of Francis Pound and Wystan Curnow considers images, symbols and the art of a place, a country, I suppose.

The review of Martin Blythe's book involves several of the themes so far considered as well as others and tries to describe an exciting analysis.

The consideration of the native, the outlaw and the frontier widens the perspective of the collection.

The rest of the papers in the collection take the idea of contest into different areas.

The discussion of Suzie Cato takes the discussion into mainstream media in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

By contrast the next article looks at work with perhaps more limited but nonetheless highly critical audiences and the construction of or the playing with a notion of the Pakeha-Maori.

The final paper is a consideration of the grotesque. This raises a number of questions that are left hanging and that, I suppose, is what happens in a collection with the theme of contest,

Peter Cleave

Contents

1.Wahi rangahau: places of inquiry

2.Native voice: 1981 and all that

3.Francis Pound: History, art and the semi colon

4.A review of Martin Blythe

5.Native, outlaw and frontier myth

6.Suzie Cato says 'Kia ora...'

7.Negotiating and constructing the Pakeha-Maori in 'The Piano', 'Monday's Warriors' and elsewhere

8.The projection of the grotesque; Maori and Pakeha-Maori in 'The Piano' and the construction of the ignoble savage in Aotearoa
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