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- Title: Disapprobation, Disobedience and the Nation in Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand Stories.
- Author : JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 203 KB
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In the most well-known and celebrated of her New Zealand short stories, Katherine Mansfield's view of the settler nation into which she was born is strongly refracted through her portrayals of traditional, conservative, patriarchal family structures. A number of these New Zealand family stories revolve around the Burnell family, consisting of husband and wife Stanley and Linda and their children Isabel, Kezia and Lottie, as well as Linda's sister Beryl and their mother Mrs. Fairfield. This family structure strongly resembles that of Mansfield's own childhood, with names from Mansfield's extended family (including Kezia, resembling Mansfield's own childhood nickname of Kass, and Mrs. Fairfield's surname, a literal English translation of Mansfield's own real surname of Beauchamp), chosen to underline the parallels. (1) Beyond the house, the family's domestic space is clearly demarcated by the cultivated garden, with its deliberate arrangement of familiar British plants emphasising the total dependence of the family's economic and social status, as well as its value system, on the colonial centre. The domesticated space of the garden exists in sharp contrast to the recently settled land beyond it, which is glimpsed only rarely, but in which we find depicted the often brutal realities of the agriculture and dangerous manual labour that are necessary to maintain the economic structures which permit the colonial family's starkly incongruous existence in the midst of such terrain. The garden gate becomes the boundary between two seemingly irreconcilable worlds, a boundary whose crossing becomes a highly significant and often transgressive event.
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