To ‘Dear Miss Mansfield’:‘from the Inside of the House’
To ‘Dear Miss Mansfield’:‘from the Inside of the House’

Summary/Abstract: „Witi Ihimaera, considered a pioneer in Maori literature, and “the leading male Maori novelist”1 of the day, rewrites some of Katherine Mansfield’s well-known New Zealand stories, including ‘The Garden Party’, in his response collection of short stories on the occasion of the birth centenary of Mansfield, the ‘canonized mother’ of New Zealand literature. Ihimaera’s collection, Dear Miss Mansfield, – which came out on the centennial of Mansfield’s birth and offered some distinctly Maori variations of some of Mansfield’s New Zealand stories – is but an ironical tribute to this charming ‘precursor’, which brings out the ‘ephebe’s ‘anxiety of influence’ vis-a-vis the illustrious icon, as Ihimaera rewrites story after story of”[…]

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