ANNE BERENS / LITERATURE & THE VISUAL WORLD
Exploring the stories, landscapes, and ways of looking that shape New Zealand Aotearoa.
Two books. Aotearoa New Zealand.
More than one way of looking.
01 / SELECTED WORKS
Ideas that travel between literature, art,
and the landscapes we call home.
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES OF
NEW ZEALAND / AOTEAROA
Literary criticism
Theoretical Perspectives of New Zealand / Aotearoa
A different lens on the early New Zealand novel. An exploration of how seeing, art, and colonial experience shape the stories of a place.
NEW ZEALAND AOTEAROA
New Zealand literature
New Zealand Aotearoa
Reading place, perspective, and settlement through the period fiction of New Zealand Aotearoa.
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02 / THE AUTHOR
Anne Berens writes at the meeting point of literature, visual culture, and place.
Her work explores early New Zealand fiction, drawing connections between the colonial imagination and the ways we see and describe the world around us.
These books invite readers to pause, look again, and discover another perspective on the stories of New Zealand Aotearoa.
Explore the reading journal →03 / FIELD NOTES
A READING COMPANION · 3 MIN READ
A few starting points for reading landscape, perspective, and the early New Zealand novel.
Read the introduction ↗04 / AN OPEN CONVERSATION
Bring your questions and your own way of seeing.
Explore the books, then join the reader discussion.