Browsing by Author "Lawn J"

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    11 views of Auckland: Soft-boiled in Ponsonby: The topographies of murder in the crime fiction of Charlotte Grimshaw and Alix Bosco
    (School of Social and Cultural Studies, Massey University, Albany, 2010) Lawn J
    11 Views of Auckland stresses a multidisciplinary approach to this most multicultural of New Zealand cities. The serendipitious - complementary rather than contradictory - way the various essays have grouped themselves according to themes during the editing process accents another virtue we've come to value highly during all our years of working together on this clean green suburban campus: collegiality
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    Introduction: The limits of responsibility
    (Anthony Burke University of Adelaide (Australia), 5/05/2016) Lawn J; Bortolotto MC; Worthington K; Meek A
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    Mapping Settler Gothic: Noir and the Shameful Histories of the Pākehā Middle Class in The Bad Seed.
    (Amsterdam University Press, 2022-09-12) Lawn J; Gildersleeve J; Cantrell K
    This chapter addresses the ways in which the New Zealand television series The Bad Seed (2019) narrates intersections between settler-colonial identity and social class. It makes the case that The Bad Seed sits within a line of storytelling in New Zealand settler Gothic which serves to secure innocence by presenting the relatively privileged Pākehā family as ‘middling’, vulnerable and at risk. The chapter progresses through an analysis of traumatogenic spaces, culminating at the isolated farmstead locale that is so generative to the settler Gothic imaginary. Ultimately, The Bad Seed employs mixed and hybrid genres to tell a story of Pākehā middle-class self-exculpation.