Honi Heke
The Maori as Aboriginal Hero in Australian Colonial Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8892242 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Pierce (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Publication date | 1993-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9697 • E-ISSN: 1837-6479 |
| Publisher | Australian Literary Studies (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.20314/als.f2289e13dd |
| OpenAlex | W2992389000 |
| Language | EN |
The focus of most nineteenth-century Australian literary depictions of the Maori, which were by turns celebratory, admonitory, satirical, was the rebellion of Honi Heke, or the Northern War of 1845-46. Authors imagined this antagonist of British imperialism in New Zealand in ways that emphasised forlorn heroics rather than recalcitrant barbarism; discovered in him a nobility felt signally to be lacking in the Aborigines of Australia; Heke was used to criticise intramurally expansionist policies of the Empire
Art · Barbarism · Civilization · Colonialism · Expansionism · HERO · Literature · Nobility · Poetry · Political science · Sociology · Australian History and Society · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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