Analysis Of Witi Ihimaeras 'The Whale Rider' On The Basis Of Postcolonial Theory

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and LiteratureStudies Culture and Applied Geography printed singlesided grade 23Technical Univ... » 

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and LiteratureStudies Culture and Applied Geography printed singlesided grade 23Technical University of Darmstadt Institut fr Sprach undLiteraturwissenschaft course Postcolonial Literature language Englishabstract The Whale Rider novel is a positive and sensitive representation ofMaori culture and several terms of postcolonial theory can be determined withinthe novel. That is why it appears worth analysing this text in the context ofpostcolonial literary studies which is the purpose of this term paper. Inchapter 1 I will give a short summary about the colonial and postcolonialhistory of New Zealand and its postcolonial literature tradition. Chapter 2deals with the novels main characters and the narrative structure whilechapter 3 detects the features of postcolonial theory which are embedded in thestory. «