Old New Zealand and Other Writings

by Maning, F.E.; Calder, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780718501969
• ISBN10: 0718501969
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-02
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

In Old New Zealand (1863), F.E. Maning recalls living alongside Maori in "the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that." His account of the early contact period is widely acknowledged to be a masterpiece of some sort, but the extent to which it is fiction, autobiography, ethnography, history, or satire remains a matter for debate. This is the first scholarly edition of Maning's writings. It includes a revealing selection of Maning's unpublished letters, and Alex Calder contributes an introduction and notes that illuminate the works' historical, ethnographic, and literary contexts, showing how settler colonialism is an incomplete and contested process, the problems of which are enacted in Maning's writings, and repeated in the history of their reception.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Chronology	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Note on Texts	15	(2)
History of the War in the North of New Zealand, Against the Chief Heke (1862)	17	(74)
Editor's Notes	78	(13)
Old New Zealand; A Tale of the Good Old Times (1863)	91	(119)
Editor's Notes	199	(11)
Appendix: Selected Letters `The Native Question'	210	(11)
Editor's Notes to the Appendix	221	(2)
Bibliography	223	(4)
Index	227