The Postcolonial Short Story [electronic resource] : Contemporary Essays /
Awadalla, Maggie.author.
March-Russell, Paul.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The Short Story and the Postcolonial; 1 'Times are different now': The Ends of Partition in the Contemporary Urdu Short Story; 2 'Sheddings of light': Patricia Grace and Māori Short Fiction; 3 Unmaking Sense: Short Fiction and Social Space in Singapore; 4 Vancouver Stories: Nancy Lee and Alice Munro; 5 'And did those feet'? Mapmaking London and the Postcolonial Limits of Psychogeography; 6 The Short Story in Articulating Diasporic Subjectivities in Jhumpa Lahiri
7 The Contemporary Egyptian Maqaāma or Short Story Novel as a Form of Democracy8 Topographies and Textual Negotiations: Arab Women's Short Fiction; 9 At the Interstices of Diaspora: Queering the Long Story Short in Caribbean Literature by Women; 10 'They can fly': The Postcolonial Black Body in Nalo Hopkinson's Speculative Short Fiction; 11 Threshold People: Liminal Subjectivity in Etienne van Heerden, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer; 12 African Short Stories and the Online Writing Space; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index.
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.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
British literature.
African literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
African Literature.