{"id":1800,"date":"2017-03-10T13:52:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2017-03-10T13:52:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:52:31","slug":"maori-literature-deserves-academic-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2017\/03\/10\/maori-literature-deserves-academic-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101ori literature deserves academic recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The School of English and Media Studies’ new creative writing lecturer has an ambitious vision \u2013 to see M\u0101ori literature recognised as distinct field.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Award-winning author Dr Ti\"\"<\/a>na Makereti, who is Ngati Tuwharetoa, Te Ati Awa, Ngati Rangatahi, Moriori and P\u0101keh\u0101, says people are always surprised to hear that no one offers a single paper in M\u0101ori literature in English. \u201cIn fact there are less than a handful of academics working in the field in New Zealand. A lot of published research comes from overseas researchers, some of whom have never been to the country.”<\/p>\n

Dr Makereti says she\u2019s excited by the opportunity to contribute new research into Indigenous creative writing along with teaching in the School of English and Media Studies. \u201cThere is a huge deficit in academic research in M\u0101ori and Pacific writing in particular. It\u2019s no wonder young people aren\u2019t drawn to study if they don\u2019t see their own literature reflected.\u201d  She says New Zealand literature courses touch on Indigenous writers but she\u2019d like to see programmes that truly engage with matauranga M\u0101ori \u2013 M\u0101ori understanding and knowledge.<\/p>\n

Dr Makereti has a host of awards to her name, including twice winning the Ng\u0101 Kupu Ora M\u0101ori Book Awards for fiction for her short story collection Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa<\/em> (Huia 2011) and then her first novel Where the R\u0113kohu Bone Sings <\/em>(Vintage 2014).<\/p>\n

While her PhD in Creative Writing was completed at Victoria University, Dr Makereti completed a Post Graduate Diploma in M\u0101ori Studies at Massey University in 2007 and has taught at Massey in the past. She will be based on the Manawat\u016b campus.<\/p>\n

Dr Makereti is looking forward to getting students excited about writing and says she\u2019ll be aiming to surprise them.\u201cPeople have preconceived ideas about what creative writing is, so I\u2019ll be looking for work that surprises and gets them to look again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The School of English and Media Studies’ new creative writing lecturer has an ambitious vision \u2013 to see M\u0101ori literature recognised as distinct field. Award-winning author Dr Tina Makereti, who is Ngati Tuwharetoa, Te Ati Awa, Ngati Rangatahi, Moriori and P\u0101keh\u0101, says people are always surprised to hear that no one offers a single paper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,100,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-news","category-palmerston-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}