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Owls do cry

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Owls do cry

During the 1950s, intellectuals had a rather more critical view of their fellow New Zealanders, presenting them as puritanical, hypocritical and – as in Janet Frame’s powerful 1957 novel Owls do cry – repressive of creativity.

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Reference: Janet Frame, Owls do cry. Christchurch: Pegasus, 1957.

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Jock Phillips, The New Zealanders – Post-war New Zealanders, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/1978/owls-do-cry (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.