Jane Stafford

Guest writer

Jane Stafford is professor in the English Programme of Victoria University. She is the co-author of Maoriland: NZ Literature, 1872-1918 and the author of Colonial Literature and the Native Author: Indigeneity and Empire. Jane was born in London in 1951.

Edwards Studio, Charles F. Goldie in his Studio with Patara Te Tuhi, 1901, gelatin silver photograph, 170 x 250 mm. From the album ‘Maoriland Photographs’, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 489

Let us now revisit Maoriland

Book of the Week: Jane Stafford reviews a vast, thought-provoking study of late colonial New Zealand, when European portrait artists romanticised Māori culture.

By Jane Stafford | 8th November, 2018