| Description |
1 online resource (x, 227 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: the short story and the postcolonial / Maggie Awadalla and Paul March-Russell -- 'Times are different now': the ends of partition in the contemporary Urdu short story / Alex Padamsee -- 'Sheddings of light': Patricia Grace and Maori short fiction / Michelle Keown -- Unmaking sense: short fiction and social space in Singapore / Philip Holden -- Vancouver stories: Nancy Lee and Alice Munro / Ailsa Cox -- 'And did those feet'? Mapmaking London and the postcolonial limits of psychogeography / Paul March-Russell -- The short story in articulating diasporic subjectivities in Jhumpa Lahiri / Antara Chatterjee -- The contemporary Egyptian maqāma or short story novel as a form of democracy / Caroline Rooney -- Topographies and textual negotiations: Arab women's short fiction / Maggie Awadalla -- At the interstices of diaspora: queering the long story short in Caribbean literature by women / M. Catherine Jonet -- 'They can fly': the postcolonial black body in Nalo Hopkinson's speculative short fiction / Lee Skallerup Bessette -- Threshold people: liminal subjectivity in Etienne van Heerden, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer / Barbara Cooke -- African short stories and the online writing space / Shola Adenekan, Helen Cousins |
| Summary |
"This new collection places the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies. In so doing, it also questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing upon short fiction from 1975 to the present day - the period during which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies - it argues for a more sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the short story form. Short fiction is discussed from India, New Zealand, Singapore, North America, the UK, Egypt, the Caribbean and Africa. Themes include trauma, diaspora, language, national identity, democracy, the city, women's writing, the body, sexuality, and new media. Canonical figures such as Alice Munro are featured alongside emerging talents such as Jhumpa Lahiri and Wena Poon, genre writers such as Nalo Hopkinson, and writers new to an Anglophone or Western audience. The contributors, too, include established figures in postcolonial and short story criticism alongside new or emerging scholars."--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Short story.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Novelle.
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novels.
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short stories.
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
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Literary studies: general.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Literature.
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Novelle
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Short story
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Kurzgeschichte
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Postkoloniale Literatur
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Short stories -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Awadalla, Maggie.
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March-Russell, Paul.
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| ISBN |
9781137292087 |
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1137292083 |
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