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Keri Hulme

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Introduction

Author Biography

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Critical Overview

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Essays & Analysis (8)

Critical Essay by Elizabeth Webby

3,717 words, approx. 13 pages

Webby is an associate professor at Sydney University. In the following essay, she traces the themes in Hulme's writing, focusing in particular on Hulme's novel The Bone People. Aue, te a... Read more

Critical Review by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

923 words, approx. 4 pages

In the following review, Miller praises The Bone People. Once upon a time a female Maori tobacco field worker who owned a portable typewriter started writing a story about a magic child washed up on a... Read more

Critical Review by Bruce King

976 words, approx. 4 pages

In the following review of The Bone People, King examines the feminist aspects of the novel, praising Hulme for her skill and innovations. That Keri Hulme's only previous book is a good volume ... Read more

Critical Review by Robert L. Ross

408 words, approx. 2 pages

In the following review, Ross, who teaches at Southern Methodist University, argues that The Bone People is too long and overwritten, but finds that it has merits despite its weaknesses. Much honored ... Read more

Critical Review by Virginia Quarterly Review

299 words, approx. 1 pages

In the following review, the critic contends that aspects of The Bone People's unique New Zealand cultural setting are sacrificed for a more universal tale. This startling first novel [The Bone... Read more

Critical Essay by Susan Ash

6,354 words, approx. 22 pages

In the essay below, Ash reinterprets The Bone People after reading Hulme's short story collection Te Kaihau, arguing that neither work emerges favorably. Does a Booker Prize ensure wide and cri... Read more

Critical Essay by Thomas E. Benediktsson

4,836 words, approx. 17 pages

In the essay below, Benediktsson compares the treatment of realism and indigenous myth in Leslie Silko's Ceremony and Hulme's The Bone People. Realism in the contemporary novel depends o... Read more

Critical Essay by Giovanna Covi

6,219 words, approx. 21 pages

Covi is a PhD. candidate at the State University of New York at Binghamton. In the following essay, she discusses Hulme's unconventional treatment of gender and ethnicity in The Bone People. Wh... Read more

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