Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:15:49 +1200
From: db <danny-AT-gdv.org.nz>
Subject: Re: poco lit course readings


Francisco wrote:


> 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

some might call it more assimilationist than self-reliant. duff's position
is only really 'self-reliance' according to the rules of western industrial
capitalism, which he supports regularly and wholeheartedly in newspaper
articles here. it's hardly a 'level playing field'.

x.danny




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