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Volume 11, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2050-4039
  • E-ISSN: 2050-4047

Abstract

This was written first as a keynote speech, which was given at the midway point of the 27th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association, held in Stockholm, Sweden, and Turku, Finland, 26–30 June 2023. It was originally entitled ‘The Māori anthologist’ and addressed the politics and aesthetics of my career as an editor of some sixteen anthologies of, mainly, Māori and New Zealand literature. But after listening to the papers that had been presented, which primarily covered the South Pacific, I decided to alter my presentation and offer a personal intervention on my career as a Pacific rather than a Māori writer, ranging from (1987) through to (2020). Furthermore, the presentation now responded to themes of Pacific and Oceanic transnationality and transculturality, which had arisen from the conference. This article is both a consolidation and extension of thoughts and arguments that were given in that keynote speech, with identity and indigeneity key concerns.

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Keyword(s): Aotearoa activism; Indigenous cultures; Māori envoys; Māori identity; Māori literature; Pacific literature

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