Ruahine : mythic women / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa:Wellington, N.Z. : Huia, 2003.Whakaahuatanga: 142 p. ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1877283827 (paperback)
- 9781877283826 (paperback)
- 398.20993 21
- GR375 .T39 2003
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Māoritanga | Hāwera LibraryPlus Nonfiction | Māoritanga | 398.22 TEAW (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | I2019983 | |||
Māoritanga | Ōpunakē LibraryPlus Nonfiction | Māoritanga | 398.22 TEAW (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | I2019984 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139).
Mahinaarangi -- Rona -- Haumapuhia -- Whakatāne -- Kurungaituku -- Huritini -- Hinemoa -- Ohinemutu -- Hinengaro.
"Ruahine is a collection of traditional Maori stories retold from a contemporary feminist perspective. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku uses her extensive and expert knowledge of Maori culture to add quiet authority to her radical re-interpretations. A straight, authorised version of the story is briefly given, followed by a re-telling: readers unfamiliar with the stories can read the original and then enjoy the re-telling. Often subversive and always redolent with idiomatic detail these re-tellings breathe fleshy life into characters and stories rendered static by repetition. Irreverent, daring and heart-warming, Ruahine asks readers to swim with Hinemoa to Mokoia Island to meet her lover Tutanekai, limbs aching with cold and exhaustion; and to feel the despair and keenly tempered fury of the bird-woman, Kurungaituku, her family horribly murdered by a trusted servant ..."--Publisher's description.
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