colonial+literatures

NZ Producers

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Both New Zealand and New York are results of colonial expansion. In the case of New York state, first the Dutch and New Zealand, the English. Specifically, both these nations had been sea-faring, had militaries and conducted trade is a large way. Their economies formented capitalism.
 * Both lands were lived on by non-capitalist groups. **

Image of first slave auction in New Amsterdam (New York) 1655. Adapted to film by Martin Scorcese(1993) Maori had migrated from the Pacific, Native American Indian, much much earlier, had moved to the North Americas from the Russian Steppes. Confederations of NAI had already met French Jesuits English settlers before Maori met a few French( Akaroa and Poverty Bay), mostly American whalers. Settlers in both regions were English in specific waves e.g. the Mayflower, the Protestant cluster, the First four ships from England and later European dissidents and refugees who became settlers, traders, educators, trades-people, including Jews from the diaspora, Germans from the days of pre- the Weimar Republic and it’s collapse. Early New York portrayals have been in Gangs of New York and an adaptation of two of Edith Wharton’s novels, the 1905 novel, A House of Mirth (2000) and later, in 1921, The Age of Innocence. [|//**The Age of Innocence (1993)**//.] There has been the saga of the Italian mafia in and Frances Ford Coppola’s T//**he Godfather (1972) Sergio Leones, One Upon a Time in America(1984** )a//nd //**[|The Last of the Mohicans( 1992),]**//

The big American directors here are: - Michael Mann - Martin Scorcese - Frances Ford Coppolla []

New Zealand

 musket used during the Musket Wars in New Zealand  Early Mapi Whenua showing where provinces existed in the 1850's

Pictures.(1981) Produced by John O’Shea. http://www.ngataonga.org.nz/feature-project/pages/Pictures.php



Read more about PICTURES here

The Documentary [|Rain of the Children].(2008) Directed by Vincent Ward A haunting historical epic … HOLLYWOOD reporter


 * //The Piano (1993).//** Directed by Jane Campion [[image:piano.jpg width="259" height="174"]]image of piano keys.

The Piano, by Jane Campion, is a Romantic literature. Read about the place of[| the piano]in 19th Century Society

Here is a an excerpt from the teacher's great grandfather. In a letter to his sister back in England, Fred affirms that the piano for his fiance is on order.

Post-Colonial literatures

The label ‘post-colonial’ demands a shift in focus, away from British literature (literature produced by British writers) to world literatures in English.