Beyond Borders New Zealand Literature in the Global Marketplace

"This collection shows how the literature of Aotearoa New Zealand has paradoxically flourished as a category in a globalized and neoliberal age, it provides a good overview of both contemporary New Zealand writing and how readers and critics are approaching that writing and reveals a complicated literary scene that continues to be fascinatingly idiosyncratic in an era where ideology and identity are ever-mutating."

- Nicholas Birns, New York University, USA

"This exciting collection explores post-2000 New Zealand literature as a dynamic and interconnected cultural field, charged with surprising indigenous-cum-global turns, and transnational swerves. That these are moves out of English, and into wider Europe, is particularly fascinating. The book testifies to a growing appetite not only across the continent but far more widely for diverse new approaches and decolonial methodologies."

- Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, UK

"A comprehensive and nuanced collection of essays that reconsider the relation of the national and the global in New Zealand literature in terms that avoid the limiting and reductive binaries of many previous discussions. It ranges widely across different genres and periods, offering a compelling updating of a question that has haunted New Zealand literature from its beginnings."

- Rod Edmond, University of Kent, UK

"This volume is an intervention and a conversation-starter. Each essay engages vibrantly with the editors' overarching question providing as various answers as the people thinking about writing in Aotearoa New Zealand today."

- Sarah Shieff, University of Waikato, NZ

"This volume appears at a point where the post-national theme has established a climate of recognition to which it contributes new areas of investigation, points of difference, and increased urgency and interest. The emphasis on the global marketplace and trans-national contexts means that New Zealand literature is seen from the outside rather than from the inside looking out."

- Mark Williams, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ