Dr. Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu

Publications & Presentations

Conference Presentations

“Indigenous Women in Pacific Writing: Narrating HerStories.”
Indigenous Peoples in the Post-Colonial World
. European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS).
[New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, January 2008].

“Re-appropriating the feathercloak: Warriordom as an epitome of mana in contemporary Māori fiction.”
Literature for Our Times
. Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS – online contribution).
[Vancouver: University of British Columbia, August 2007].

“Daughters of Eve, Daughters of Papatūānuku: The Role of Women in Contemporary Māori Writing.”
The State of the Nation: New Zealand's Centenary as a Dominion
. Annual Conference of the New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA).
[London: Birkbeck University, June 2007].

 

Articles

“Indigenous Women in Pacific Writing: Narrating HerStories.” Indigeneity: Culture and Interpretation, eds. G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis & K. K. Chakravarty (Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2008).

“Manifestation of Self and/or Tribal Identity? Māori Writing in the Global Maelstrom.” Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Realities, Fictions, eds. F. Schulze-Engler & S. Helff (Amsterdam/Kenilworth, NJ: Rodopi, 2008).

“Contemporary Māori Writing: Traditional Identities and the Gusts of Modernity,” in This Century’s Review 4 (2006), [online] accessible at http://www.thiscenturyreview.com.

“Re-Gaining the Past and Shaping the Present: Indigenous Children’s Fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and the United States.” ABSTRACT
(ASNEL Proceedings 2006, Publisher: Rodopi; in print).

“No longer Strangers Nor Estranged in This Land? Indigenous Identities in the Contemporary Māori Short Story.”
(Proceedings from the NZSA Conference 2006, Publisher: University of Hawaii Press; to be published).

“Swarming With Ghosts and Tūrehus: Indigenous Language and Concepts in Contemporary Māori Writing.”
(ASNEL Proceedings 2005, Publisher: Rodopi; in print).

“Maori und Literatur.” Maori und Gesellschaft, ed. Hartmut Jäcksch (Berlin: MANA, 2000): 93-116.

“Der ‘Maoriroman’ Neuseelands: Untersuchungen zu Romanen von Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme und Alan Duff.” ACOLIT 45 (Frankfurt, 1999): 21-22. ABSTRACT