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‘It isn’t England and it isn’t anywhere else. It’s null, it’s dull, it’s tepid, it’s mediocre: the downunder of the spirit’ said one dismayed visitor of the cultural life she encountered on arriving in New Zealand in 1941. While Anna Kavan’s verdict struck many as condescending, ill-informed and mor...

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Published in:Journal of New Zealand literature 2016-01, Vol.34 (1), p.8-26
Main Author: Schwass, Margot
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Culture
Essays
Folklore
History and criticism
Internationalism
Landscape architecture
Literature
Modernism
Modernism (Literature)
Philosophy
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Summary:‘It isn’t England and it isn’t anywhere else. It’s null, it’s dull, it’s tepid, it’s mediocre: the downunder of the spirit’ said one dismayed visitor of the cultural life she encountered on arriving in New Zealand in 1941. While Anna Kavan’s verdict struck many as condescending, ill-informed and more than a little solipsistic, it nonetheless helped set the tone for persistent imaginings of the decade as a site of unmitigated drabness.
ISSN:0112-1227