Shorty
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Botur, Michael Stephen
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King, Barry
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Auckland University of Technology
Abstract
The eight short stories in Shorty examine themes including racism, oppression, conflict, social perception, miscommunication, struggles over meaning, truth and ethnic identity. New Zealand is a country reinventing itself from its colonial past (Wyn 2004 p. 277); identity-making in this country is a ‘dynamic process’ (Liu et al. 2005 p.11) which generates new cultural forms and practices. The concept of culture and subculture links the aforementioned themes in Shorty.Description
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Short story, Culture, Aotearoa New Zealand, Dialogue, Community, Short fiction