File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1997/97-04-17.225, message 130


Date: 	Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:14:46 -1000
From: Francisco Acoba <francisc-AT-hawaii.edu>
Subject: Re: poco lit course readings



> Ireland) or just not well known in the mainstream academic US 
> (Australia, New Zealand), I would very much appreciate it. 

hiya,
howabout maori alan duff's once were warriors, which was made into one of
(if not the) highest-grossing pacific films.  the film collapses a
cultural nationalist narrative with a feminist one, so that might be of
interest too.  duff has a self-reliant, up-by-your-boot-straps
mentality for maoris, and  he has been attacked by maoris and academics
alike.  --f





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