Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial
Published on 16. September 2013
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-7486-6909-7 (ISBN)
Description
Explores Mansfield's identity as a (post)colonial writer in relation to her foremost reputation as a European modernist
In seeking new possibilities for alignments with, and resolutions to, the contradictory agendas implied by the terms '(post)colonial' and 'modernist', the essays in this volume address the clashing perspectives between Mansfield's life in Europe, where her troubled self-designation as the 'little colonial' became a fertile source of her distinctive brand of literary modernism, and her ongoing, complex relationship with her New Zealand homeland. The contributors investigate Mansfield's (post)colonial modernism in the context both of New Zealand settler-colonial fiction and of her European literary inheritance. Affinities with writers such as Edith Wharton and Robert Louis Stevenson reveal that 'home' can be a diasporic place, combining alienation with belonging. The volume also registers initial responses to the widened scope for Mansfield scholarship launched by the first two volumes of the new Edinburgh Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield.
Includes:
*Previously unpublished poetry and fiction
*Reports of current research findings on Katherine Mansfield
*An introduction by Janet Wilson, Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University of Northampton
*Reviews of recent publications on Mansfield and her contemporaries
In seeking new possibilities for alignments with, and resolutions to, the contradictory agendas implied by the terms '(post)colonial' and 'modernist', the essays in this volume address the clashing perspectives between Mansfield's life in Europe, where her troubled self-designation as the 'little colonial' became a fertile source of her distinctive brand of literary modernism, and her ongoing, complex relationship with her New Zealand homeland. The contributors investigate Mansfield's (post)colonial modernism in the context both of New Zealand settler-colonial fiction and of her European literary inheritance. Affinities with writers such as Edith Wharton and Robert Louis Stevenson reveal that 'home' can be a diasporic place, combining alienation with belonging. The volume also registers initial responses to the widened scope for Mansfield scholarship launched by the first two volumes of the new Edinburgh Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield.
Includes:
*Previously unpublished poetry and fiction
*Reports of current research findings on Katherine Mansfield
*An introduction by Janet Wilson, Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University of Northampton
*Reviews of recent publications on Mansfield and her contemporaries
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
12 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-6909-7 (9780748669097)
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Persons
Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton. Gerri Kimber is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton, and a professional writer and book reviewer. Delia da Sousa Correa is Professor of Literature and Music at the Open University and co-convenor of the OU's Literature and Music Research Group. She studied in New Zealand, London, and Oxford and previously taught at the universities of Oxford and St Petersburg. Her research explores connections between literature and music in the Victorian and early-modernist periods.
Content
Introduction, Janet Wilson; Articles; 'Katherine Mansfield: Cannibal', Aimee Gasston; 'Mansfield as (Post)colonial-Modernist: Rewriting the Contract with Death', Janet Wilson; 'Colonialism and the Need for Impurity: Katherine Mansfield, "The Garden Party" and Postcolonial Feeling', Emmanouil Aretoulakis; 'How Katherine Mansfield was Kidnapped. Hypothesis on a (Post)colonial Family Romance', Lorenzo Mari; '"Unmasking" the First-Person Narrator of In a German Pension', Todd Martin; 'Workmanship and Wildness: Katherine Mansfield on Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence', Emily Ridge; 'Home and Abroad in the South Pacific: Spaces and Places in Robert Louis Stevenson's and Katherine Mansfield's Short Fiction', Stefanie Rudig; 'Literatures of Expatriation and the Colonial Mansfield', Anne Brown-Berens; Creative Writing; Poetry; C. K. Stead: 'Names and Places'; Kathleen Jones: 'Excavating the Bones', 'Nightmare', 'L'Incubo'; Gladys Mary Coles: 'Katherine Mansfield's Mirror', 'This Nettle, Danger', 'Poem for Jeanne's Birthday'; Short Story; Witi Ihimaera: 'Waiting for La Petite Anglaise'; Reports; 'The Lawrences, Katherine Mansfield and the "Ricordi" Postcard', Andrew Harrison; 'A Little Episode: The Forgotten Typescripts of Katherine Mansfield', Chris Mourant; 'Report from the Turnbull Library', Fiona Oliver; 'Two French books Belonging to Katherine Mansfield', Gerri Kimber; Editing the new Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 2 vols (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sullivan, eds, Vincent O'Sullivan; 'Names Painting', Penelope Jackson; Reviews; Vincent O'Sullivan: Frank O'Connor, The Lonely Voice; Marco Sonzogni: Kimber, Gerri and O'Sullivan, Vincent, eds, The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 1898-1915 (Volume 1) and The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield 1916-1922 (Volume 2); Isobel Maddison: Martin Hipsky, Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925; Brigid Magner: Calder, Alex, The Settler's Plot: How Stories Take Place in New Zealand, and D'Cruz, Doreen and Ross, John C., The Lonely and the Alone: the Poetics of Isolation in New Zealand Fiction; Alexandra Smith: Diment, Galya, A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements.