
The Postcolonial Short Story: Contemporary Essays
Contemporary Essays
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 23. October 2012
Book
Hardback
227 pages
978-0-230-31338-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Book
Edition
2013
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
X, 227 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
447 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-31338-5 (9780230313385)
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Edited By Maggie Awadalla and Paul March-Russell
Content
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Short Story and the Postcolonial; M.Awadalla and P.March-Russell 1. 'Times are different now': The Ends of Partition in the Contemporary Urdu Short Story; A.Padamsee 2. 'Sheddings of light': Patricia Grace and Maori Short Fiction; M.Keown 3. Unmaking Sense: Short Fiction and Social Space in Singapore; P.Holden 4. Vancouver Stories: Nancy Lee and Alice Munro; A.Cox 5. "And did those feet'? Mapmaking London and the Postcolonial Limits of Psychogeography; P.March-Russell 6. The Short Story in Articulating Diasporic Subjectivities in Jhumpa Lahiri; A.Chatterjee 7. The Contemporary Egyptian Maqama or Short Story Novel as a Form of Democracy; C.Rooney 8. Topographies and Textual Negotiations: Arab Women's Short Fiction; M.Awadalla 9. At the Interstices of Diaspora: Queering the Long Story Short in Caribbean Literature by Women; M.C.Jonet 10. They can fly': The Postcolonial Black Body in Nalo Hopkinson's Speculative Short Fiction; L.Skallerup Bessette 11. Threshold People: Liminal Subjectivity in Etienne van Heerden, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer; B.Cooke 12. African Short Stories and the Online Writing Space; H.Cousins and S.Adenekan Selected Bibliography Index