My First Sixteen Years lloyd gretton
sargon press
This is a boy's life that only represents
itself as it sees and records its world.
This is the language and assumptions of its time.
That time is now only a remembered figment of the man.
Should you, the reader, believe this is the voice of the patriarchy and the Pakeha ascendancy on the East Coast of the North Island in post‑war New Zealand, you would be right too.
Glossary
- Aotearoa
- New Zealand
- Aroha
- Love
- Haka
- War dance
- Hongi
- Nose rubbing greetings
- Korero
- Spoken Maori language
- Pakeha
- European New Zealander
- Pom
- British immigrant in New Zealand
- Te reo
- Maori language
