Sarah Shieff

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Recent Publications (since 2000)

Books:

Talking Music: Conversations with New Zealand Musicians.  (Auckland University Press, 2002) 206 pp. [Includes CD of musical illustrations. Duration: 75.05]

Chapters in Books:

"the bone people: Contexts and Reception, 1984-2004" in The Pain of Unbelonging: Alienation and Identity in Australasian Literature ed by Sheila Collingwood-Whittick. With a preface by Germaine Greer. (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007) pp. 143-163.

"Well-laundered Elves: purity and degeneration in Peter Jackson's The Lord of The Rings" in Gothic NZ: The Darker  Side of Kiwi Culture ed Jenny Lawn and Misha Kavka. (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2006) pp111-119.

"Devouring Women: Corporeality and Autonomy in Recent Fiction by Women." Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression. Eds. Kathleen LeBesco and Jana Evans Braziel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001) pp214-230.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

"Representing Maori: Witi Ihimaera's Where's Waari?" Journal of Post-Colonial Writing 42: 1 (May 2006): 101-106.

The Bone People: Myths of Belonging." New Literatures Review 41 (April 2004): 47-63.

"Michael King 1945-2004." The Journal of New Zealand Literature 22 (2004): 11-14.

"English and New Zealand Cultural Identity: Beyond Buzzy Bee."  English in Aotearoa (Number 41: September 2000): pp3-4.

Articles in Non-Refereed Journals:  

"Reading Bellow and Roth: Some observations on The Victim and Operation Shylock: A Confession." With Chris Bourke, Owen Bullock, Steve Chappell, Paul Collings, Michelle Coursey and Brent Walsh. Philip Roth Society Newsletter vol 3 no. 3 (Fall 2005): 4-5.

"The Golem of Exile in Michael Chabons The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" Windows on a Jewish World: The Proceedings of the 11^th annual Waikato Jewish Studies Seminar, 2003, Hamilton. Edited by Norman Simms. Outrigger Publications, (ISBN 0908571-76-3), 2004. pp 1-6.

An Unsettled Spirit. Review of An Unsettled Spirit: The Life and Frontier Fiction of Edith Lyttleton (G.B. Lancaster). By Terry Sturm. Auckland University Press  2003. English in Aotearoa 53  (August 2004): 73-75. 

"Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding." "Katherine Mansfield: Stories and Pictures." Occasional Papers No. 2, Department of English, University of Waikato, 2003. pp15-22.

"Gareth Farr: passion, enjoyment, excitement and big bashy thing." Stretto No. 66, Sept 2003: 10-17.

"Gareth Farr: revelations and resonance but no way round the rules." Stretto [Journal of the Institute of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand] No. 65, June 2003: 10-13.

"Voices of the Gods." Stretto [Journal of the Institute of Registered Music Teachers of New Zealand] No. 63, Sept. 2002: 19-21.

"Transports of Delight: Wonder in the Time-based Arts." Brief 21 (September 2001): 53-58.

Edited Special Issue of Journal:

English in Aotearoa (Journal of the New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English) Number 41: September 2000. Issue theme: English and New Zealand Cultural Identity.

Edited Issues of Non-referreed journals:

Occasional Paper No. 4: Mr Sargeson at Home: A Glimpse at the domestic arrangements and literary carry-on at 14 Esmonde Road, Takapuna. By Kevin Ireland. (Text of the third annual Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture, 2005). Department of Humanities, University of Waikato, 2006. (ISSN1176-2837)

Occasional Paper No. 3: The Wrong Bus: The 'Sons of Sargeson', Dan Davin and the Search for the Great New Zealand Novel, 1943-56. By Professor Emeritus Lawrence Jones (Text of the second annual Frank Sargeson Memorial Lecture 2004). Department of Humanities, University of Waikato, 2005 (ISSN1176-2837) 18pp.

Katherine Mansfield: Stories and Pictures. Sarah Shieff and Ralph Crane (editors). Occasional Papers No. 2. Department of English, University of Waikato. 2003 (ISSN 1176-2837; 52pp)

Conference Papers:

"The Cat's in the Fire: Frank Sargeson's Violent Turn." International Symposium: "Violence, Culture and Identity in Australian and New Zealand Studies" Journée d'Etudes à l'Université de Bordeaux 3. 23 June 2006.

"Where's Waari? Short Fiction and the Invention of Maori Identity." International Symposium: Journée d'Etudes à l'Université de la Rochelle, France: "Stories/her-story/ History." 24 June 2005.

"The Bone People: Myths of Belonging." "Imagining New Zealand/Aotearoa: Histories and Representations." International Conference:  The eleventh annual day conference of the New Zealand Studies Association of Great Britain. New Zealand House, London. 3 July 2004.

"The Bone People Twenty Years On: Reconsidering the Myths" "The Pain of Unbelonging: Literary representations and social manifestations of old colonial wounds in the 'postcolonial societies and literatures of Australia and New Zealand." International Symposium:  Journée dEtudes a L'Université Stendhal, Grenoble III 26 June 2004.

"The Golem of Exile" The Poetics of Exile: An International Conference. University of Auckland, July 17-19, 2003.

"Transports of Delight: Wonder in Music and Literature" No Sense of Discipline: An international conference on interdisciplinarity. University of Queensland, June 10-11 2001.

"Hirini Melbourne: Recovering a Tradition." Post-Colonial New Zealand. International Conference: The New Zealand Studies Group, New Zealand House, London. 28 June 2001.