TY  - GEN 
AU  - Rodríguez Salas, Gerardo
PY  - 2023
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10481/91362
AB  - Contrary to an apolitical, pessimistic, and non-feminist perception of Witi Ihimaera’s work, this
article contends that his early novel The Matriarch (1986) and its sequel The Dream Swimmer
(1997) frame Māori communities as an ancient, patriarchal...
LA  - eng
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Imperial democracy
KW  - Kaupapa Māori
KW  - Mana Wāhine
TI  - “The past does not lie behind us”: Warrior-matriarchs’ retrotopia in Witi Ihimaera’s fiction
DO  - 10.1177/00219894231219111
ER  -