Cultural rhetoric in coming-out narratives: Witi Ihimaera's the uncle's story  

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Tawake, Sandra

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Englishes (Full Text) vol. 25 no. 3/4 (Aug. 2006), page 373-380.
Fulltext: Sandra Tawake.pdf (121.49KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/WOE/25 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The novel The Uncle s Story by New Zealand Maori Witi Ihimaera tells a story within a story, recounting the coming out narratives of two Maori gay men who lived 25 years apart in the same family. The novel is examined in light of Bacon's (1998) discussion of the possibility of a cultural rhetoric of the queer movement for liberation. Representations of self in the two Maori gay men's stories both challenge and sustain essential notions of sexual identity and contemporary theories of rhetorical practice. Ihimaera's fictional representations of coming out capture the complexity and nuance of coming-out experiences in a way that expressivist accounts of actual coming-out stories may obliterate or obscure. In this novel Ihimaera extends the artistic representation of gay culture he presented in Nights in the Gardens of Spain in a way that does not fall apart under close scrutiny because it does not oversimplify what happens in the same way that truth-telling often does.

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