Jane StaffordJane Stafford

Jane Stafford is professor in the English Programme of Victoria University. She is the co-author of Maoriland: NZ Literature, 1872-1918 and the author of Colonial Literature and the Native Author: Indigeneity and Empire. Jane was born in London in 1951.

Let us now revisit Maoriland

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Book of the Week: Jane Stafford reviews a vast, thought-provoking study of late colonial New Zealand, when European portrait artists romanticised Māori culture. I have long regarded Roger Blackley as a living taonga, an unfailing resource for anyone working in the field of Aotearoa New Zealand’s colonial culture. There is no enquiry too recondite, no … Read more