Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows
Children of the Whore and Once Were Worriers
Children of the Whore and Once Were Worriers
The paper will posit Britannia as prostitute and consider the sorry plight of her children, seeking diasporical haven in the new colonial space of New Zealand. The bifurcated problematics of the two books listed above will be compared and contrasted in one of those stupid and futile intellectual exercises beloved of academics and find contrasts and commonalities that don't exist.