Beyond Borders: New Zealand Literature in the Global Marketplace [Paperback]

This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global marketplace.

This collection shows how the literature of Aotearoa New Zealand has paradoxically flourished as a category in a globalized and neoliberal age, it provides a good overview of both contemporary New Zealand writing and how readers and critics are approaching that writing and reveals a complicated literary scene that continues to be fascinatingly idiosyncratic in an era where ideology and identity are ever-mutating.

- Nicholas Birns, New York University, USA

This exciting collection explores post-2000 New Zealand literature as a dynamic and interconnected cultural field, charged with surprising indigenous-cum-global turns, and transnational swerves. That these are moves out of English, and into wider Europe, is particularly fascinating. The book testifies to a growing appetite not only across the continent but far more widely for diverse new approaches and decolonial methodologies.

- Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, UK

A comprehensive and nuanced collection of essays that reconsider the relation of the national and the global in New Zealand literature in terms that avoid the limiting and reductive binaries of many previous discussions. It ranges widely across different genres and periods, offering a compelling updating of a question that has haunted New Zealand literature from its beginnings.

- Rod Edmond, University of Kent, UK