{"id":14873,"date":"2020-02-23T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/23\/patricia-graces-literary-legacy-giving-maori-characters-their-natural-voice"},"modified":"2020-02-23T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T00:00:36","slug":"patricia-graces-literary-legacy-giving-mori-characters-their-natural-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14873","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Grace&#8217;s literary legacy: giving M&#257;ori characters their &#8216;natural&#8217; voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Grace\u2019s 1986 novel Potiki is republished in Britain, the writer talks about culture, politics and activism<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live by the sea, which hems and stitches the scalloped edges of the land,\u201d writes New Zealand author Patricia Grace of the beachside town that is the setting for her novel, Potiki. The land in the book bears a striking resemblance to the settlement where Grace lives, and walking up the coastal road to her home in Hongoeka Bay, north of Wellington, you can see things the way her characters do: the dark morning sea, \u201cstrident bands\u201d of gulls, and the capital\u2019s notoriously \u201cedged wind\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 1975, Grace, now 82, was the first M\u0101ori woman to publish a book of short stories in New Zealand, despite the fact that she had not \u2013 by the time she finished high school \u2013 read a book by a local writer, let alone an Indigenous one.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/23\/patricia-graces-literary-legacy-giving-maori-characters-their-natural-voice\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Grace\u2019s 1986 novel Potiki is republished in Britain, the writer talks about culture, politics and activism\u201cWe live by the sea, which hems and stitches the scalloped edges of the land,\u201d writes New Zealand author Patricia Grace of the beachside town t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,511,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14874,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873\/revisions\/14874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}