The postcolonial short story : Contemporary essays.

Other author Awadalla, Maggie.
Other author March-Russell, Paul.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBasingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description1 online resource (240 pages)
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects
Postcolonialism in literature.
Short story.
Electronic books.

Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Short Story and the Postcolonial -- M. Awadalla & P. March-Russell 'Times are different now': The Ends of Partition in the Contemporary Urdu Short Story -- A. Padamsee 'Sheddings of light': Patricia Grace and Maori Short Fiction -- M. Keown Unmaking Sense: Short Fiction and Social Space in Singapore -- P. Holden Vancouver Stories: Nancy Lee and Alice Munro -- A. Cox "And did those feet'? Mapmaking London and the Postcolonial Limits of Psychogeography -- P. March-Russell The Short Story in Articulating Diasporic Subjectivities in Jhumpa Lahiri -- A. Chatterjee The Contemporary Egyptian Maqama or Short Story Novel as a Form of Democracy -- C. Rooney Topographies and Textual Negotiations: Arab Women's Short Fiction -- M. Awadalla At the Interstices of Diaspora: Queering the Long Story Short in Caribbean Literature by Women -- M.C. Jonet 'They can fly': The Postcolonial Black Body in Nalo Hopkinson's Speculative Short Fiction -- L. Skallerup Bessette Threshold People: Liminal Subjectivity in Etienne van Heerden, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer -- B. Cooke African Short Stories and the Online Writing Space -- H. Cousins & S. Adenekan Selected Bibliography Index.
Summary This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today - the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies - it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form. 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.
General notePAUL MARCH-RUSSELL teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Kent, UK. His previous publications include The Short Story: An Introduction and, as co-editor with Carmen Casaliggi, Ruskin in Perspective and Legacies of Romanticism. He edit the SF Storyworlds series published by Gylphi. MAGGIE AWADALLA is Coordinator of Arabic at Imperial College, London and also teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Kent, UK. She was previously a Research Fellow for the project, Europe in the Middle East: The Middle East in Europe, at Wissenschaft College, Berlin. With Rana Dayoub, she co-edited the journal Postcolonial Forum.
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Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formPrint version: Postcolonial short story. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 9780230313385 0230313388
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9781137292087
ISBN1137292083
ISBN1283738201
ISBN9781283738200
ISBN9781349339303
ISBN134933930X
Standard identifier# 10.1057/9781137292087

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