Kiwi Icons and the Re‐Settlement of New Zealand1 as Colonial Space
2002; Wiley; Volume: 58; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1745-7939.2002.tb01631.x
ISSN1745-7939
Autores Tópico(s)Asian American and Pacific Histories
ResumoABSTRACT This article offers a critical reading of the celebratory biographical and autobiographical texts for three ‘kiwi icons’. It argues that kiwi icons signal the enduring influence of British colonialism upon national imaginings – through a process that I term ‘re‐settlement’. I demonstrate how representations of Barry Crump, Sir Edmund Hillary and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, prominent New Zealanders during the 1990s, are entwined with dominant constructions of New Zealand society. Further, I explore how these kiwi icons are constructed to serve the quest for nationhood; an endeavour, it is argued, that is about the reinvention of settlement mythology that involves the continuation of particular narratives of colonisation from the past.
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