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For Was I Not Born Here? : Identity and Culture in the Work of Yvonne du Fresne.
This study centres on the fiction of the New Zealand writer Yvonne du Fresne, the descendant of Danish and Danish-Huguenot families who emigrated to New Zealand in the late-nineteenth century and settled in the Manawatu area. It explores how memories of the past haunt generations of immigrants, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2010.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study centres on the fiction of the New Zealand writer Yvonne du Fresne, the descendant of Danish and Danish-Huguenot families who emigrated to New Zealand in the late-nineteenth century and settled in the Manawatu area. It explores how memories of the past haunt generations of immigrants, and how issues of language, politics, and social norms live on through generations, affecting the formation of new identities and homes. Is it only, as with Astrid in Motherland, that by returning to our roots we can finally feel that we are at home in more than one country? As Lauris Edmond writes, du. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (196 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789042029583 9042029587 9789042029576 9042029579 |
| ISSN: | 0924-1426 ; |