Lynda Dyson Lynda Dyson i(11459646 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 The Return of the Repressed? : Whiteness, Femininity and Colonialism in The Piano Lynda Dyson , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Piano Lessons : Approaches to The Piano 2000; (p. 111-121)

'Lynda Dyson skilfully argues that the film is so preoccupied with upholding Ada's courgeois femininity and securing her fate in the colonial culture that it glosses over the history of Maori resistance. She locates her argument in the contemporary post-colonial anxieties over New Zealand's past, teasing out the primitivist discourse in the film that positions the Maori collectively outside of culture and history.' (p.xii)
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