Title: Fretful Sleepers and Other Essays

Author: Bill Pearson

Publication details: Heinemann Educational Books, 1974, Auckland

Digital publication kindly authorised by: Paul Millar

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

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Fretful Sleepers and Other Essays

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Contents

Foreword vii
Fretful Sleepers 1
Colonial 'County' 33
John Guthrie 37
A Self-Exacting Writer 43
Attitudes to the Maori in Some Pakeha Fiction 46
O.E. Middleton's Stories 72
A Mixed Performance 75
M.K. Joseph's War Novel 80
An American Looks at New Zealand 85
A Parable of Exploitation 94
Under Pressure to Integrate:
The Situation of Maoris in 1962
100
Frank Sargeson's Stories 128
The Recognition of Reality 137
The Reluctant Bushman 151
Recent Maori Writers 155
Home 159
Two Tributes:
H. Winston Rhodes
James K. Baxter, a Personal Memory
163