Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature.

Abstract

Dougal McNeill’s book Forms of Freedom is a study of literary culture and its material determinations on both sides of the Tasman. In his readings of New Zealand and Australian literature, McNeill adopts an overtly Marxist approach, shunning both conventional (new) historicism and the dematerialised politics of identity that form the contemporary critical orthodoxy.