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- Title: Terminal Creeds and Native Authors (Essay)
- Author : JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 217 KB
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The British Empire was a literary as well as a political network, one which provided its participants, both coloniser and colonised, with a common literary language. This language--that of the post-Romantic, high Victorian literary canon--was inculcated by agencies as diverse as the colonial education system with its newly valorised study of English, colonial newspapers with their ferocious middlebrow commitment to literature, and the cultural arm of such global proselytising structures as the London Missionary Society. It was tempered by local demands and agendas, from the settler nationalisms of New Zealand and Canada, to the intellectual and political stringencies of the Bengali Renaissance. And it existed within and was inflected by local indigenous ethnologies and mythologies. From the nascent Canterbury College in Christchurch, New Zealand, where Maori writer and politician Apirana Ngata was taught, to the library at her home at the Six Nations' Reserve where the Mohawk poet E. Pauline Johnson read Scott's Ivanhoe novels, Longfellow's Hiawatha and Richardson's Wacousta, to the Methodist mission to the Ojibwa which introduced George Copway to 'a high-toned literature', the world these colonial subjects inhabited was not just the local--the kainga at Waiomatatini, provincial society in Ontario. (1) It was also the literary, the textual and thereby the global.
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