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Reading Nature and Cultures
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witi Ihimaera's "The Whale Rider" and its Contexts
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The globally acclaimed novel "The Whale Rider" by Witi Ihimaera connects with today's pressing issues: decolonization, environmental protection, cultural resilience. The contributors to this volume offer readers intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives on this work through accessible scholarly and personal analyses. They show how literature can bridge...
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Reading MΔori literature in global contexts: interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on Β»The Whale RiderΒ« by Witi Ihimaera.
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Description
The globally acclaimed novel "The Whale Rider" by Witi Ihimaera connects with today's pressing issues: decolonization, environmental protection, cultural resilience. The contributors to this volume offer readers intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives on this work through accessible scholarly and personal analyses. They show how literature can bridge nature and cultures, myth and reality, Indigenous stories and international audiences. Readers gain new insights into Māori literature and its global contexts - making this a compelling read for scholars and curious minds alike.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9783837679199
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 December 2025
Country: Germany
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Contributors:
- Edited by Wolfgang JΓ€ger
- Edited by Anke Vogel
- Edited by Julia Sander
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 1.0mm
Width: 15.0mm
Height: 23.0mm
Weight: 369g
Pages: 240
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About the Author
Julia Sander (Dr. phil.) ist Professorin fΓΌr Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Johannes Gutenberg-UniversitΓ€t Mainz. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Kinder- und Jugendmedien und deren Didaktik, Critical Literacy und LesefΓΆrderung in Ganztagsschulen. Anke Vogel (Dr.) is a research and teaching associate in the Book Studies Department at the Gutenberg Institute for World Literacy and Written Media at Johannes Gutenberg-UniversitΓ€t Mainz, Germany. Her research and teaching interests include book market research, especially digital transformation, communication, sustainability, as well as reading and readers research and childrenβs and young adult book studies. Wolfgang JΓ€ger is a teacher at a secondary school in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His fields of research are childrenβs and young adult media and their didactics, democracy education, and digitization in education.
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