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“He looked at me like a cold and thirsty sailor might look at a long hot mug of coffee spiked with whiskey”: Gaze and desire in Tina Makereti’s The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke
Tina Makereti’s 2018 novel The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke tells the story of a young Māori boy who travels to London to become part of an exhibition that displays Māori culture to an audience of Victorian England. It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Indigenous Literature from New Zealand
Tagged Desire, Exhibition, Gaze, historical fiction, Indigenous, London, Māori, Maori, Maori Literature, Queerness
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