{"id":2299,"date":"2019-06-20T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2019-06-20T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T04:05:44","slug":"reframing-literature-through-a-maori-and-pacific-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/2019\/06\/20\/reframing-literature-through-a-maori-and-pacific-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Reframing Literature Through a Maori and Pacific Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new Massey University course looks set to radically reframe what we traditionally consider in the study of literature.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Novelist and Massey creative writing lecturer, Dr Tina Makereti (Te \u0100tiawa, Ng\u0101ti T\u016bwharetoa, Ng\u0101ti Rangatahi) has created a unique course entitled \u2018Oceanic Literatures of Aotearoa: Ng\u0101 Tuhinga K\u014drero o te Moana Nui a Kiwa.\u2019<\/p>\n

The course is being launched for second semester study both on campus and by distance and will allow students to explore customary M\u0101ori and Pasifika creation narratives, visual narratives and oral traditions.<\/p>\n

Dr Makereti says when considering Aotearoa\u2019s literary past, people tend to think of the first M\u0101ori literature as being produced in the 1960s and 1970s. But she says M\u0101ori and Pacific cultures were weaving narratives long before English explorers arrived on the scene. \u201cWritten literature was never alien to us because our ancestors were already using sophisticated coding built into carving, weaving and ta moko to tell our stories. Our wharenui are libraries of stories built into the walls and into the very faces of our tipuna.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says it is time academia acknowledged this visual communication is as much literature as oral and written forms and she believes students, especially M\u0101ori and Pacific students, need the opportunity to study the richness of their literary heritage.<\/p>\n

\u201cViewing M\u0101ori and Pasifika literatures as a recent development devalues them \u2013 we can see this in the lack of courses on this subject available nationally, and the lack of research in this area. By re-contextualising the history of our literatures, I hope to re-energise interest in our contemporary writing too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with studying pre-colonial literature, students will also look at contemporary M\u0101ori and Pasifika stories and poems in English and critically evaluate how cultural and historical bias is embedded in reading and writing.<\/p>\n

Full details of the course can be found\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and it will commence on July 15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A new Massey University course looks set to radically reframe what we traditionally consider in the study of literature. Novelist and Massey creative writing lecturer, Dr Tina Makereti (Te \u0100tiawa, Ng\u0101ti T\u016bwharetoa, Ng\u0101ti Rangatahi) has created a unique course entitled \u2018Oceanic Literatures of Aotearoa: Ng\u0101 Tuhinga K\u014drero o te Moana Nui a Kiwa.\u2019 The course […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,11,9,12,89,1,100,3,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-writing","category-albany","category-campus","category-creative-writing","category-english","category-expressive-arts-subject","category-news","category-palmerston-north","category-wellington-campus-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/expressivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}