Diversity or Perversity? Investigating Queer Narratives, Resistance, and Representation in Aotearoa / New Zealand, 1948-2000

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Diversity or Perversity? Investigating Queer Narratives, Resistance, and Representation in Aotearoa / New Zealand, 1948-2000

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This thesis contributes to the burgeoning field of the history of sexuality in New Zealand and seeks to distill the more theorised and reflexive understanding of the subjectively understood queer male identity since 1948. Emerging from the disciplines of History and English, this project draws from a range of narratological materials: parliamentary debates contained in Hansard, and novels and short stories written by men with publicly avowed queer identities. This thesis explores how both 'no...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2007

Creator

Burke, Christopher J. F.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/2245

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queer / homosexual / homosexuality / gay / queer theory / cultural history / fiction / literature / novels / narrative / parliamentary debates / Hansard / House of Representatives / Frank Sargeson / James Courage / Bill Pearson / Noel Virtue / Stevan Eldred-Grigg / Peter Wells / politicians / members of parliament / New Zealand / Aotearoa

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