Where Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity Meet: Contemporary New Zealand Fiction from an Intersectional Perspective
Abstract
Katharina Luh's Intersecting Identities. Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand (2013) examines the diversification of New Zealand's society by taking into account literary representations of overlapping ethnic, gender, and sexual identities. Considering indigenous and non-indigenous texts, the study highlights how intersectionality can serve as a viable research perspective for the analysis of narrative fiction in combination with other methodological tools such as narratology. The volume provides a contextualization of New Zealand's identitary landscape, traces the journey of intersectionality from North America to the Pacific, and illustrates its practical potential by analysing seven novels and their negotiation of multi-layered identities. Due to its comprehensive yet focused descriptions, the publication is a worthwhile read for all those who are interested in the fields of intersectionality or contemporary New Zealand literature.
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