Reading Nature and Cultures
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witi Ihimaera's »The Whale Rider« and its Contexts
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-3-8376-7919-9 (ISBN)
Description
The globally acclaimed novel »The Whale Rider« by Witi Ihimaera connects with today's pressing issues: decolonization, environmental protection, cultural resilience. The contributors to this volume offer readers intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives on this work through accessible scholarly and personal analyses. They show how literature can bridge nature and cultures, myth and reality, Indigenous stories and international audiences. Readers gain new insights into Maori literature and its global contexts - making this a compelling read for scholars and curious minds alike.
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Series
Edition
Auflage - Neueauflage
Language
English
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
24
19 farbige Abbildungen, 2 s/w Abbildungen
2 schwarz-weiße und 19 farbige Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-7919-9 (9783837679199)
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Julia Sander | Anke Vogel | Wolfgang Jäger
Reading Nature and Cultures
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witi Ihimaera's »The Whale Rider« and its Contexts
E-Book
11/2025
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Persons
Editor
Julia Sander, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Deutschland
Julia Sander (Dr. phil.) ist Professorin für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Kinder- und Jugendmedien und deren Didaktik, Critical Literacy und Leseförderung in Ganztagsschulen.
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Anke Vogel, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Deutschland
Anke Vogel (Dr.) is a research and teaching associate in the Book Studies Department at the Gutenberg Institute for World Literacy and Written Media at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany. Her research and teaching interests include book market research, especially digital transformation, communication, sustainability, as well as reading and readers research and children's and young adult book studies.
Wolfgang Jäger, Lehrer, Deutschland
Wolfgang Jäger is a teacher at a secondary school in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His fields of research are children's and young adult media and their didactics, democracy education, and digitization in education.