"Sarah Lark's landscape novels and the "New Zealand exotic

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2179334
AutoresP Fresno-Calleja (0000-0003-2094-7536)
Año2020
Volumen56
Número2
Páginas188-202
Fecha de publicación2020-03-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449855.2020.1728121
OpenAlexW3010297446
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas9

This article focuses on Sarah Lark’s first New Zealand trilogy, historical romances set in New Zealand and marketed as “landscape novels”. After a brief analysis of the landscape boom, it focuses on the novels’ construction of the “New Zealand exotic”, a landscaped version of New Zealand history and culture designed for the global literary marketplace which proves the enduring power of exoticizing discourses. The article argues that the novels create both tourist and settler landscapes: the former are reminiscent of contemporary articulations of Aotearoa New Zealand as an ideal tourist destination, which in turn go back to colonial renderings of Māoriland; the latter reshape historical material to prioritize stories of female development and settler triumph, minimizing discussions of interracial conflict and land dispossession

Aotearoa · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Boom · Colonialism · Ideal (ethics · Landscape archaeology · Landscape design · Landscape history · Literature · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Tourism · Trilogy · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Short Stories in Global Literature · Gender Studies · History · Law