Alan Duff has angrily rejected police evidence that he swung a policewoman into the road by her handcuffs during a roadside incident, citing one of his best-known characters - Beth Heke from Once Were Warriors - in his defence.
The author has admitted “ranting” at police officers, but took the witness stand yesterday to tell a [...]
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Cultural legacies of puritanism and violence are having a harmful effect on Kiwi men, an Otago University professor says.
Professor Alistair Fox said Maori and Pakeha men had troubling cultural pasts to wrestle with.
His new book, The Ship of Dreams: Masculinity in Contemporary Pakeha and Maori Fiction of Aotearoa/New Zealand, explores Kiwi post-war masculinity through the [...]
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