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The Postcolonial Short Story

Awadalla, Maggie and March-Russell, Paul, eds. (2012) The Postcolonial Short Story. Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-31338-5. (doi:10.1057/9781137292087) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:33888)

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Edited book
DOI/Identification number: 10.1057/9781137292087
Uncontrolled keywords: short fiction, postcolonial, short story, trauma, diaspora, national identity, democracy, the city, women's writing, the body, sexuality, and new media.
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN80 Criticism
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Fiona Symes
Date Deposited: 13 May 2013 17:49 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:11 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/33888 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Awadalla, Maggie.

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