All aboard the U.S.S. New Zealand? Voyaging through the literary responses to the American 'occupation,' 1942-1944

摘要

This article reviews and compares the literary fictions of the UnitedStates and New Zealand, as they have sought to respond to the ‘occupation,’1942–1944. During the period in question, approximately 100,000 United StatesArmy and Marine Corps servicemen landed and resided in New Zealand, where theyundertook final preparations for the island campaigns of the Pacific War. In theaftermath of the war, American fiction writers wrote of the social and culturaldifficulties endured by New Zealand civilians, but New Zealand writers took longerto come to terms with the events.