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Tahuri Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku

Tahuri Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku

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Tahuri Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku

Tahuri is a moving collection of short stories depicting the title character – Tahuri – coming of age in New Zealand. Tahuri is not interested in going with the boys, Tahuri likes watching the big girls, she likes watching the women dressed in men's clothes, and finally Tahuri likes Mirimiri, a young woman like herself.

Tahuri (the runaway) is joined by more stories about Tahuri and other young girls as they grow up and move from the security of early childhood with their kuia and aunties, to all sorts of encounters with cousins, brothers, neighbours , and pakehas from school.

There is love and joy, but harshness too, as Tahuri carves out her own way, not wanting to go with boys, however much they get at her, ever searching for someone else like her.

Reviews:

"There is always a special feeling I get when I read a book written by a Maori about being Maori, where the world is described through eyes that are my eyes - the people, the humour, the sadness and the occasions are familiar parts of my life - and Tahuri is such a book." -Books for Secondary School Libraries

"Simple, clear, colloquial, and unique... The Tahuri stories capture the thrill and romance of the young adolescent girl watching and adoring older girls and women... What it's like to grow up Maori, lesbian, and intelligent in the 50's, effectively told- vivid, sensuous, and at times shocking..." - Aorewa McLeod, Sunday Star, March 1990

"Tahuri is strongly located in a Maori world in Pakeha New Zealand. I would love to have had a book like this to read when I was a teenager, because it validates lesbianism (though certainly does not romanticise it), being young and uncertain and eager, and (again without romanticising) being Maori" -Pat Rosier, Broadsheet, March 1990

About Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku

Ngahuia te Awekotuku (Te Arawa, Tuhoe, Ngapuhi, Waikato) is the first female Maori Emeritus Professor from a university, with degrees from the University of Auckland and University of Waikato. An Emeritus Professor, she has worked as a curator, lecturer, critic, researcher and governor in the heritage and university sectors. She is a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, a Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a Fellow of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. She has returned to the pa, and serves on the Paepae Tapu o Ngati Whakaue. She loves cats and chocolate.

 

Product Details:

  • Format:                   Paperback
  • Publication Date:    2017 Limited Edition
  • ISBN:                       9780473385552
  • Publisher:                PangoCatPress
  • Category:                Fiction - Social Sciences
  • Country of Origin:   New Zealand
  • Pages:                      157


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