Language is a huge issue in the novel, or, rather, communication. Prominently even as they are unessential to a reading of the novel. And yet, the politics of identity figure very Violence, and poverty are facts of life in every ghetto slum, whether inĪmerica or Calcutta. In which the Heke family lives, and the actual plot and despair of the mainĬharacters, are not exclusive to dispossessed ethnic peoples drunkenness, The film's visual treatment of the housing project The novelĪnd film are exceptional, however, in that the events themselves are not soĬontextualized that they must be seen only in terms of Maori identity in Socio-political context of a once-colonized land, New Zealand. Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff's sociological epic of Maori despair, is - besides powerful, visceral - almost a grab-bag of postcoloniality it touches on issues of translation, gender and power roles, traditional versus modern culture, media influence on culture,Ĭonflict of ideology, and, of course, is rooted in a current Postcoloniality in Text and Film: Once Were Warriors Gregory Gipson '98, English 27, 1997 Postcoloniality in Text and Film: Once Were Warriors
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