James Courage, 1903–1963

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  • Philip Steer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v7i2.674

Abstract

James Courage is best known for his short stories and for the seven novels he wrote between 1948 and 1961. Despite living in England from the end of his secondary schooling until his death, New Zealand provided the setting for his most successful writing. Courage also took an active interest in the New Zealand literary scene, meeting and corresponding with many of its most prominent figures. His fiction reworks a variety of autobiographical scenarios, ranging from an early interest in the domestic relationships and specific New Zealand settings of his childhood, through to his later concerns with mental illness and its treatment, and homosexuality. One of his novels was banned in New Zealand because of its homosexual themes, and it is on this incident and more general questions about his homosexuality that most recent attention paid to Courage has focused.

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Philip Steer

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Published

2008-06-07