TY - THES A1 - Moura-Koc̜oǧlu, Michaela T1 - Narrating indigenous modernities : transcultural dimensions in contemporary Māori literature N2 - Whether minorities such as the Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, the San across Southern Africa and the Métis in Canada, or native majority peoples such as the Aymara and Quechua in South America: indigenous peoples" lifeworlds have been transfigured by the difficulties originating from a history of conquest, settlement and suppression. The imperialist strife of European empires and the atrocities committed by their gang of "explorers" – including "this person Cook" in the South Pacific, Columbus in North America, Cortéz in Mexico, Gomes in West Africa, or van Riebeeck in South Africa – was aimed at enforcing European values and institutions, destroying, silencing or marginalizing indigenous cultures and societies as inferior "others." Unsurprisingly, the disruption of formal colonialism in the second half of the 20th century held no inherent improvement for the concerns of formerly colonized peoples. ... KW - Maori KW - Literatur KW - Interkulturalität KW - Kulturelle Identität Y1 - 2008 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/7217 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-71998 N1 - Diese Dissertation steht außerhalb der Universitätsbibliothek leider (aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen) nicht im Volltext zur Verfügung, die CD-ROM kann (auch über Fernleihe) bei der UB Frankfurt am Main ausgeliehen werden. ER -