Kin of Place: Essays on New Zealand Writers
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This collection of 28 critical essays provides provocative comment on the work of 20 New Zealand writers, including Elizabeth Knox, Katherine Mansfield, Kendrick Smithyman, Allen Curnow, and Janet Frame.Author Biography: C. K. Stead, professor emeritus of English at the University of Auckland, is the author of many works including Smith's Dream, All Visitors Ashore, and The Singing Whakapapa.
Introduction1Katherine Mansfield: The Art of the 'Fiction'8Katherine Mansfield: The Letters and Journals29Katherine Mansfield's Life39Frank Sargeson: The Realist and the Sprite47Sargeson's Peon51A. R. D. Fairburn: The Argument Against65R. A. K. Mason: Bringing Disorder to Life82Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Living on the Grand93Allen Curnow: Poet of the Real112Second Wind: Allen Curnow's Continuum131Allen Curnow, 1911-2001141John Mulgan: A Question of Identity156Hubert Witheford: Rhetoric and Wit197Maurice Duggan: Language is Humanity205Kendrick Smithyman: Hiding the Lunch224Ronald Hugh Morrieson: The Man from Hawera245David Ballantyne: Whimsical Losers254Janet Frame: Language is the Hawk263A Retrospect: Janet Frame's Pocket Mirror271King's Frame279Lauris Edmond282James K. Baxter: A Loss of Direction301James K. Baxter: Towards Jerusalem306Maurice Gee, Moralist320Witi Ihimaera: Old Wounds and Ancient Evils330Keri Hulme's the bone people338Ian Wedde and the 'From Wystan to Carlos' Lecture345Knox's Oxen364Dates of Authors who are the Subject of Individual Essays376References377Index382
