John White, 1826–1891
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https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v7i2.660Abstract
John White occupies a minor but interesting position in the nineteenth-century New Zealand literary scene, thanks to the series of ethnographic novels he wrote about Māori. These books, while mediocre in terms of artistic quality, are culturally significant, for they reveal in a fascinating way the attitudes of many European New Zealanders of this period towards Māori and Māori culture.
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O’Leary, John. ‘“Tableaux of Queerness”: the Ethnographic Novels of John White’. Kunapipi, 23, no. 2 (2001): 7-17.
Reilly, Michael. ‘John White: an Examination of his Use of Maori Oral Tradition and the Role of Authenticity’. M.A. Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 1985.
Reilly, Michael. ‘John White: the Making of a Nineteenth-Century Writer and Collector of Maori Traditions’. New Zealand Journal of History, 23, no. 2 (1989): 157-172.
Reilly, Michael. ‘John White: Seeking the Elusive Mohio – White and his Informants’. New Zealand Journal of History, 24, no. 1 (1990): 45-55.
Reilly, Michael. ‘White, John’. The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, vol 1. Ed. W.H. Oliver. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1990, pp. 587-88.
Wattie, Nelson. ‘White, John’. The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Eds. Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 586-87.
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