(Out of print)
November 2007
$34.50
276pp, Paperback
228 x 152 mm
ISBN 978-1-877257-69-8
The Long Forgetting is the first book-length study of New Zealand’s post-colonial literary culture.
Beginning with a survey of the wrenching economic, social, and cultural changes that have occurred since 1970 – including Maori protest, the anti-tour protests of 1981, Rogernomics, Ruthanasia, the ‘fiscal envelope’ and the America’s Cup win – it then moves back to the nineteenth century and the formation of Europeans’ relationship with Maori.