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- Title
Joe Gillayley: A Model of Cultural Hybridity in Keri Hulme's Novel.
- Authors
Cozma, Codrina
- Abstract
Born and raised at the confluence of two cultures, Western and Maori, the New Zealand author Keri Hulme crafts in her 1983 novel, The Bone People, a vigorous literary discourse whose integrity and realism often topple consecrated stereotyping colonial theories. Joe Gillayley displays complex mechanisms of cultural hybridity in major areas of his private and social life. His initially ambivalent attitude towards both his Western and his Maori heritage are evident in his personal, social and economic life - in his interactions with his family, his semi-adopted son Simon/ Himi, his friend Kerewin, his work, school authorities, and tribal figures such as the mysterious prophet Tiaki Mira. Post-colonial scholarship provides the context in which the analysis provided here is conducted, an analysis that highlights the futility of colonial theories that are based on distorted, stereotypical images of both Western and indigenous life and values.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; BONE People, The (Book); SOCIAL interaction; GILLAYLEY, Joe; CULTURAL pluralism
- Publication
He Puna Korero: Journal of Maori & Pacific Development, 2004, Vol 5, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
1175-3005
- Publication type
Article