Narrative in Robyn Kahukiwa’s 'Matatuhi': Culture and Narrative
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picture books, cultural understandings, cultural beliefs, Jon Battista, Robyn Kahukiwa, Matatuhi, narrative, Māori peopleAbstract
The question of a dominating Western metanarrative in postcolonial societies has particular significance when people write for children in a bi-cultural situation. In a recent study the Maori scholar Jon Battista shows that fictional texts written in English by Maori in a Maori context are structured to project Maori cultural understandings and argues that these cultural beliefs shape the narrative of individual texts (Battista, 2004). I apply her thesis to 'Matatuhi', a picture book by Robyn Kahukiwa, in order to discuss the narrative operation and significance of Maori cultural beliefs and practices identified by Battista.
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2021-06-13
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“Narrative in Robyn Kahukiwa’s ’Matatuhi’: Culture and Narrative” (2021) Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, 16(2), pp. 126–131. Available at: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/pecl/article/view/1227 (Accessed: 9 December 2024).