How does Patricia Grace's novel 'Potiki' subvert traditional Western novelistic structures?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Privileging collective whanau oral storytelling and spiralling Maori temporal concepts
- Step 1: Grace weaves communal perspectives, ancestral continuity, and oral narrative cadences into novelistic prose. Step 2. Linear European chronology is replaced by Maori concepts of time where past and present interpenetrate. Answer: Privileging collective whanau oral storytelling and spiralling Maori temporal concepts. Why not the others: Potiki resists European novelistic conventions to assert indigenous land rights and cultural sovereignty.
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