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Article: Utopianism and the Creation of New Zealand National Identity(*).(Review)
- Article from:
- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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THIS ESSAY constitutes both a first survey of New Zealand utopianism and an argument that utopianism is central to the New Zealand experience and has helped create the nation that exists today. In an essay it is not possible to encompass all the expressions of utopianism found in a country, but in this survey I touch upon many such expressions to show that the language, literature, and practice of utopianism permeated New Zealand experience from its beginning. Since the social dreaming I call utopianism can take many forms, in doing so I include fiction, non-fiction, and material whose status is unclear. In New Zealand in particular the belief that New Zealand was already ...