期刊名称：Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
印刷版ISSN：1447-8986
电子版ISSN：1833-6027
出版年度：2006
卷号：5
页码：121-133
出版社：Association for the Study of Australian Literature
摘要：When it was published in 1990, Alan Duff ¡¯s novel Once Were Warriors spent
more than a year at number one on the New Zealand best-seller lists. It
remained in the top ten for the next four years. The film came out in 1995,
broke through to an international audience and rocketed the book back up
the best-seller list for several more years. Janet Maslin, who reviewed the
film of Once Were Warriors for the New York Times in that year, observed
that:
in his visceral first feature, Mr Tamahori [Lee Tamahori, the
director] offers social realism with a savage kick, depicting Māori
New Zealanders whose ties to their own history have been
destroyed. Left floundering in an inhospitable urban world they
have lost touch with their tribal past to become part of a rootless
global subculture. The misery here would be familiar anywhere.
