The Forgotten Coast
Published on 11. September 2021
129 pages
978-0-9951465-2-5 (ISBN)
Description
'You approach family stories with caution and care, especially when a thing long forgotten is uncovered in the telling.'In this deft memoir, Richard Shaw unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Taranaki which had been confiscated from its owners and sold to his great-grandfather, who had been with the Armed Constabulary when it invaded Parihaka on 5 November 1881.Honest, and intertwined with an examination of Shaw's relationship with his father and of his family's Catholicism, this book's key focus is urgent: how, in a decolonizing world, Pakeha New Zealanders wrestle with, and own, the privilege of their colonial pasts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
New Zealand
Illustrations
30 Illustrations, black and white
File size
1,61 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-9951465-2-5 (9780995146525)
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Start here
- 5 November 1881
- Putting things off
- Land
- Interlude
- Kate
- Vocation
- Are we there yet?
- Via dei Ss Quattro
- Zenith
- Nadir
- Homecoming
- Silence
- Bob/TB redux
- Death
- Conversations with the dead
- Reckoning
- Telling stories
- Beneficiary of injustice
- The hardest word
- Ending the forgetting
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
