Rolling back Modernity: Selective Tradition and Contemporary Literary Politics in the South Pacific
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https://doi.org/10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS26.4838Abstract
This article relates Raymond Williams’s concept of “selective tradition” to the shaping of literary history in Aotearoa New Zealand. It makes the case for the ongoing salience of Williams’s narrative of modernity as a “long revolution,” and his sense of the threats to democratic and cultural participation around the turn of the 21st century, as a framework for situating recent cultural politics. The article closes with some suggestions for possible future directions for the development of locally-based materialist literary criticism.
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2018-07-02
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