Shell Seekers
| aut.embargo | No | en_NZ |
| aut.thirdpc.contains | No | en_NZ |
| aut.thirdpc.permission | No | en_NZ |
| aut.thirdpc.removed | No | en_NZ |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hughes, David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Colmar, Nicole | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-07-04T22:40:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-07-04T22:40:41Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2011 | |
| dc.date.created | 2011 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2012-07-04T12:25:42Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Lost and found in translation: Being Madeleine This isn’t my life. This is the “screenplay” (book) I wrote about my life. Janet Frame (and me) Shell Seekers is a coming of age story of a young part ni-Vanuatu woman trying to reconcile her fragmented past. It is a past that is constructed through memory, fantasy and myth; from memories of an idyllic childhood in paradise, to the realities of educational aspirations in New Zealand, a return home permeated by local sweet/souring of Anglophile and Francophile colonial aftertastes, then as a young woman “in the belly of the beast” that is London, looking for a father and answers. A romantic encounter proves to be an eye-opener for Madeleine, who finally discovers that her displaced homeward journey is inevitably circular, and what “home” has become is borne out of memory, love and desire; a place she, literally, cannot “return” to again. Although many original works are often viewed as being semi-autobiographical, all the characters, including the central character of Madeleine Hughes are, in essence, fictions. Shell Seekers, the first ‘completed’ draft, is an original concept. | en_NZ |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10292/4505 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_NZ |
| dc.publisher | Auckland University of Technology | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | OpenAccess | |
| dc.subject | Film | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Cinema | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Communications | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Screenwriting | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Narrative | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | South Pacific | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Vanuatu | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Coming of age | en_NZ |
| dc.title | Shell Seekers | en_NZ |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | ||
| thesis.degree.grantor | Auckland University of Technology | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters Theses | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Communication Studies | en_NZ |