外国语学院“外语教学激励促改工程”之：语言人文活动系列讲座 （第6期）

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讲座题目：Multiculturalism and Contemporary New Zealand Literature: Some Trends and Problems

讲座人：Professor Mark Williams， Victoria University of Wellington, Newzealand

讲座时间：2016年11月3日（周四）10：15-11：30

讲座地点：外国语学院109教室

Abstract:

Professor Mark Williams examines past and contemporary New Zealand literature in this paper. He considers the prominent model of multiculturalism in Canada, then looks at New Zealand which has chosen a different model. In New Zealand the favoured cultural model is 'Biculturalism', that is the conviction that New Zealand has two founding cultures, Maori and British, who have agreed to abide by a form of power sharing. Hence the place of migrant writing in contemporary is not as developed as in those other countries. Nevertheless, New Zealand's contemporary cities, especially Auckland, are lively multicultural places, and new writers and artists are emerging in them. Prof Williams examines specific contemporary and looks at the place of China in New Zealand literature historically. He concludes that the two models are finding a means of co-existing.

Brief Introduction to Prof. Mark Williams

BA?Auckland; MA(Hons) 1st class?Auckland; PhD?British Columbia

Mark's research has focused on New Zealand and modern literature. He has published widely in both fields since the mid 1980s and is on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals, including?Journal of Commonwealth Literature?and?Canadian Literature.

Current Research Projects

Editor, A History of New Zealand Literature (Cambridge University Press).

Areas of Supervision

Modern and New Zealand Literature.

Major Achievements

2014: "Between Modernism and the Postcolonial: Reading Patrick White and Malcolm Lowry in the 1970s." In?New Directions in the History of the Novel. Eds. Andrew Nash, Patrick Parrinder and Nicola Watson. New York: Palgrave, 177-91.2012: With Jane Stafford.?The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Auckland University Press. 1162pp.2001:?Visiting Invitation Fellowship awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; sponsor, Prof Masami Nakao, University of Tokyo.1997:?Montana Book Award, Poetry Section, for?An Anthology of New Zealand Verse in English1995:?Canadian Faculty Research Award1994:?Choice, "Outstanding Academic Book" for Patrick White (1993)1991:?Canadian Faculty Enrichment AwardSelection of Publications

"Between Modernism and the Postcolonial: Reading Patrick White and Malcolm Lowry in the 1970s." In?New Directions in the History of the Novel.?Eds. Andrew Nash, Patrick Parrinder and Nicola Watson. New York: Palgrave, 2014: 177-91.‘"When You’re Dead You Go on Television": Sex, Death and Household Objects in Some New Zealand Poetry’. Sport, 42 (2014): 149-73.With Jane Stafford, eds.?The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature,?Auckland University Press 2013.With Jane Stafford. "New Zealand." Year's Work in English Studies 91, no 1, 2012.With Jane Stafford.?Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914.?Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006. 350pp.Post-colonial Literatures in English: Southeast Asia, New Zealand and the Pacific. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996. 370pp.Patrick White. London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press, 1993. 185pp.Leaving the Highway: Six Contemporary New Zealand Novelists. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1990. 232pp.With Evgeny Pavlov, eds.?Land of Seas: An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry, trans. Arkadii Dragomoschenko, Evgeny Pavlov et al. Moscow: New Literary Review, 2005. 453pp.With Jenny Bornholdt and Gregory O'Brien, eds.?An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1997. 547pp.With Michele Leggott, eds?Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995. 334pp.