The postcolonial short story : contemporary essays / edited by Maggie Awadalla and Paul March-Russell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Awadalla, Maggie.

March-Russell, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short story.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 227 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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 û 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 'Times are different now': The Ends of Partition in the Contemporary Urdu Short Story / Alex Padamsee Padamsee, Alex 15

2 'Sheddings of light': Patricia Grace and Maori Short Fiction / Michelle Keown Keown, Michelle 33

3 Unmaking Sense: Short Fiction and Social Space in Singapore / Philip Holden Holden, Philip 49

4 Vancouver Stories: Nancy Lee and Alice Munro / Ailsa Cox Cox, Ailsa 64

5 'And did those feet'? Mapmaking London and the Postcolonial Limits of Psychogeography / Paul March-Russell March-Russell, Paul 79

6 The Short Story in Articulating Diasporic Subjectivities in Jhumpa Lahiri / Antara Chatterjee Chatterjee, Antara 96

7 The Contemporary Egyptian Maqama or Short Story Novel as a Form of Democracy / Caroline Rooney Rooney, Caroline 111

8 Topographies and Textual Negotiations: Arab Women's Short Fiction / Maggie Awadalla Awadalla, Maggie 133

9 At the Interstices of Diaspora: Queering the Long Story Short in Caribbean Literature by Women / M. Catherine Jonet Jonet, M. Catherine 151

10 'They can fly': The Postcolonial Black Body in Nalo Hopkinson's Speculative Short Fiction / Lee Skallerup Bessette Bessette, Lee Skallerup 167

11 Threshold People: Liminal Subjectivity in Etienne van Heerden, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer / Barbara Cooke Cooke, Barbara 182

12 African Short Stories and the Online Writing Space / Shola Adenekan Adenekan, Shola, Helen Cousins Cousins, Helen 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230313385

0230313388

OCLC:

811523989