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Recent criticism: New Zealand as 'Maoriland'

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Recent criticism: New Zealand as 'Maoriland'

In Maoriland: New Zealand literature, 1872–1914 (2006) Victoria University academics Jane Stafford and Mark Williams undertook a ground-breaking reassessment of a period of New Zealand literature that many critics had dismissed as containing little of worth.

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Victoria University Press

Reference: Jane Stafford and Mark Williams, Maoriland: New Zealand literature, 1872-1914. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006

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Rebecca Rice rāua ko Mark Williams, Criticism and the arts – Critical approaches, 1980s onwards, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/object/42939/recent-criticism-new-zealand-as-maoriland (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Rebecca Rice rāua ko Mark Williams, i tāngia i te 2 October 2013.