How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes
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How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes

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How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes

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About This Book

In 1905, white supremacist Lionel Terry murdered the Cantonese gold prospector Joe Kum Yung to draw attention to his crusade to rid New Zealand of Chinese and other east Asian immigrants. Author Chris Tse uses this story—and its reenactment for a documentary a hundred years later—to reflect on the experiences of Chinese migrants of the period, their wishes and hopes, their estrangement and alienation, their ghostly reverberation through a white-majority culture. Along the way readers visit the gold fields of the south; a shipwreck in the Hokianga that left the spirits of 500 Chinese gold miners in an unmemorialized limbo for a hundred years; and the streets of Newtown, Wellington, where Lionel Terry went out one night "looking for a Chinaman." Chris Tse's flickering use of imagery, resonant language, and flexible pronouns are particularly suited to the historic events he describes and the viewpoints he shifts through. How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes is a welcome poetic addition to New Zealand literature.

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Publisher
Auckland University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781775587552
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. (In which the author interviews a dead man)
  4. (Good law)
  5. (Eight ghosts)
  6. (SS Ventnor)
  7. (Manifesto)
  8. (Charm attack)
  9. (Disturber)
  10. (How to be dead in a year of snakes)
  11. (Thoughts of a dying man)
  12. (Chorus)
  13. (All together now)
  14. (Ghosting—an uncertain fortune)
  15. (In which the author interviews a Mr Terry)
  16. (Lamentfor Joe Kum Yung)
  17. (Lamentfor Lionel)
  18. (Following death)
  19. (In which the author interviews light)
  20. (Static, spool)
  21. (Intersect)
  22. (Biopsy)
  23. (Holding)
  24. (Rituals)
  25. Index
  26. Copyright
  27. Footnotes
  28. Backcover