This Compulsion in Us - Couverture souple

Makereti, Tina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1776562291 ISBN 13 : 9781776562299

Editeur : Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2025

Synopsis

It's not beautiful, not at all, when it's there in front of you, but writing transforms. In her first book of nonfiction, prizewinning author Tina Makereti writes from inside her many intersecting lives as a wahine Maori - teacher, daughter, traveller, parent - and into a past that is as alive and changeful as the present moment. Makereti stands at the foot of her mounga and pays careful attention to tohu. With her tupuna at her elbow she casts around for home, meets taonga in museums, and writes her way towards her father. She walks through the darkness with others, in awe of Te Kore, Te Po and Te Ao Marama-- a universe of potential being, dark and light. These are some of the kaupapa that underpin her work and her way of moving through the world, both enlivened and haunted by a compulsion to write. Included here are frank and moving essays about the wahine who have shown her many ways of being a Maori woman, the pain and dark humour of living with an alcoholic, a blue boob from breast cancer treatment, and the potential of art to return power to survivors of colonialism. What if we could transform the events that made us who we are? What if there were a way back to the beginning?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tina Makereti (Te Atiawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Rangatahi-Matakore, Pakeha) is the author of three acclaimed novels: Where the Rekohu Bone Sings, The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke, and most recently The Mires. In 2022, her essay ' Lumpectomy' won the Landfall Essay Prize, and in 2016, her short story ' Black Milk' won the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the Pacific Region. Her first novel won the 2014 Nga Kupu Ora Aotearoa Maori Book Award for Fiction, also won by her short story collection, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, in 2011.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Te Herenga Waka University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1776562291
• ISBN 13: 9781776562299
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible