num_pages: 112
description: This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield's short stories focusing on the question of the connection between life and writing in her work. This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield's short stories informed by recent biographical, critical and editorial work onher life and on her stories, letters and notebooks. The study focuses on the question of the connection between life and writing in Mansfield's it explores her engagements with issues of personal identity and elaborates her theory and practice of a poetics of impersonation whereby the identityof the author is merged with those of her characters. Bennett argues that Mansfield's multiple and unstable identities and identifications are bound up with issues of colonialism, nationality, gender, and sexuality, and that they may be said to be embedded within the very texture of her prose.Mansfield's impersonations, in their engagement with a 'queer' aesthetics, with strangeness and surprise, with hatred, with
language: English
title: Katherine Mansfield
titlecomplete: Katherine Mansfield (Writers and Their Work)
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Liverpool University Press