New Zealand Literature
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Reference Sources
These are useful for background information on New Zealand and its literature. While the books by and about New Zealand authors are found in the New Zealand Collection on Level 3, many reference books are in the Quick Reference Collection next to the Information Desk on Level 2. Some selected titles are:
Reference Guide to Short Fiction (Quick Reference, Level 2, PN3373.R36 1994) - has essays on New Zealand writers
Contemporary Novelists (Quick Reference, Level 2, PN3503.C65 1996)
Contemporary Poets (Quick Reference, Level 2, PN1270.C65 1996)
Encyclopedia of the Novel (Quick Reference, Level 2, PN41.E48 1998)
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Quick Reference, Level 2, PR9080.A52E58) has entries on New Zealand poets and essays on New Zealand short fiction, poetry and the novel.
Other selected titles to be found in the New Zealand Collection, on Level 3, are:
Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (NZC Level 3, PR9657.6A628 1997)
Dictionary of New Zealand English (NZC, Level 3 PE1625.D53 1997)
Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Writing since 1945 ( NZC, Level 3, PR9649.5.O98 1983)
Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (NZC, Level 3, PR9602.O98 1998)
Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English (NZC, Level 3 PR9606.O93)
Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse (NZC, Level 3, PR9657.5P46 1984)
Post-colonial literatures in English: Southeast Asia , New Zealand and the Pacific, 1970-1992 ask for this bibliographic work at the NZC Information Desk.
Books
To search the Catalogue by subject you need to use Library of Congress Subject Headings. Type the subject heading in the search box and select Subject begins with from the drop-down menu.
Use these subject headings to get started:
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new zealand literature
new zealand poetry
new zealand prose literature
new zealand literature women authors
short stories new zealand
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new zealand fiction 20th century
commonwealth literature
decolonization in literature
culture conflict in literature
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For biographical and critical works about an author, type the author's name, surname first and select Subject begins with. from the drop-down menu.
Look up a book that you know is relevant to see what subject headings it has been given. They display in the Subject(s) field on a record. Use these to search further.
Keyword Boolean search using keywords or phrases e.g. "new zealand" and poetry and criticism.
Journals
JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature (Journals, Level 1, PR9600.J61)
Journal of Commonwealth Literature (Journals, Level 1, PR1.J86 9) The last print copy is Vol. 39:no.4 (2004), but it is available online via the electronic access link on the Library Catalogue record.
Landfall (Journals, Level 1, PR9600.S764)
New Zealand Books - for book reviews - (Journals, Level 1, Z4114.BN532)
Poetry New Zealand (Journals, Level 1, PR9657.6.P745)
Sport (Journals, Level 1, PR9600.S764)
Indexes and Databases
The Library Catalogue lists all the journal titles, both print and electronic, held by the Library but does not list articles and reviews within the journals.
To find articles and reviews you will need to use a journal or newspaper index.
Electronic indexes (databases) are available online through the Databases
link on the Library home page . The Catalogue is integrated with these databases.
Catalogue records provide a links to the electronic version of the journal on
the relevant database. Therefore a search for the journal title, if the title is held here, will return a record that will indicate the location and call number for the journal in print and/or the link to the electronic version of the journal.
Some useful indexes and databases are:
Index to New Zealand Periodicals (NZC, Level 3, Z6962.N515) lists articles, reviews and interviews published in New Zealand journals between 1941 and 1986.
For publications from 1987 to the present use Index New Zealand (INNZ) which is accessible from
Databases and is especially useful for information on contemporary authors who do not yet feature in traditional sources of information.
National Bibliographic Database is available from
Databases. The search interface is similar to the Library Catalogue. Managed by the National Library of New Zealand it includes over 10 million records for New Zealand and overseas resources.
MLA International Bibliography is available from Databases. It indexes literature journals worldwide so will pick up references to New Zealand literature published overseas.
The Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive, available from
Databases is a good source of book reviews from (1902-1990). Back issues of the TLS (Times Literary Supplement) from 1994 are available online via a journal title search on the Catalogue. Early years (1902-1980) are indexed in a cumulated index (Journals, Level 1, PN2.T583).The Times Index at AN3.T585 covers later years.
Recommended Web Sites
New Zealand Literature File: Critical and Biographical Material on New Zealand Authors by Kay Stead is available at http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/nzp/nzlit2/authors.htm . Alternatively, follow the New Zealand Literature links from the New Zealand Collection's web page. This web site is not being maintained at the moment.
New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) available at http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/ provides a gateway to poetry resources in New Zealand.
Useful internet resources for New Zealand literature can be found from the
New Zealand Collection
web pages.
Research Assistance
You are welcome to come to the Information Desks on Level 2 and in the New Zealand Collection on Level 3, where staff will help you.
Telephone Jenny McGhee, the Subject Librarian, who will be pleased to assist you, at 07-838 4466 ext. 6511 or contact her by e-mail at jmcghee@waikato.ac.nz , or ask for her at the Level 2 Information Desk. .
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