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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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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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This book examines postcolonial short fiction since 1975 from India, North America, UK, Caribbean & Africa in relation to themes of trauma, diaspora, the city, women's writing, critical theory.

Author Biography

Shola Adenekan, Freelance Journalist, UKLee Skallerup Bessette, Morehead State University, USAAntara Chatterjee, Lecturer, State University, West BengalBarbara Cooke, University Of East Anglia, UKHelen Cousins, Newman University College, Birmingham, UKAilsa Cox, Edge Hill University, UKPhilip Holden, National University Of SingaporeM. Catherine Jonet, New Mexico State University, USAMichelle Keown, University Of Edinburgh, UKAlex Padamsee, University Of Kent, UKCaroline Rooney, University Of Kent, UK

Table of Contents

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

Review

'...[A] rich, diverse and discerning collection of essays... a highly recommended collection to all those interested in postcolonialism, modernism, the short story and contemporary literature from colonial peripheries.' - Aurogeeta Das, Wasafiri

Long Description

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.

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This book examines postcolonial short fiction since 1975 from India, North America, UK, Caribbean & Africa in relation to themes of trauma, diaspora, the city, women's writing, critical theory.

Details ISBN0230313388 Author Paul March-Russell Publisher Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-10 0230313388 ISBN-13 9780230313385 Publication Date 2012-10-23 Language English Year 2012 Format Hardcover Short Title POSTCOLONIAL SHORT STORY Media Book Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Contemporary Essays Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Paul March-Russell UK Release Date 2012-10-23 AU Release Date 2012-10-23 NZ Release Date 2012-10-23 Illustrations X, 227 p. Pages 227 Alternative 9781349339303 DEWEY 809.31 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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