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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788933203321

Autore

Kimber Gerri

Titolo

Katherine Mansfield and the (post)colonial / / edited by Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber and Delia da Sousa Correa [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-7486-9514-1

0-7486-6911-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 210 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Katherine Mansfield studies, , 2041-4501 ; vol. 5

Classificazione

HQ 3639

Disciplina

823/.912

Soggetti

Postcolonialism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial; Criticism; Katherine Mansfield, Cannibal; Mansfield as (Post)colonial-Modernist: Rewriting the Contract with Death; Colonialism and the Need for Impurity: Katherine Mansfield, 'The Garden Party' and Postcolonial Feeling; 'How Katherine Mansfield Was Kidnapped': A (Post)colonial Family Romance; 'Unmasking' the First-Person Narrator of In a German Pension; Workmanship and Wildness: Katherine Mansfield on Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence

Home and Abroad in the South Pacific: Spaces and Places in Robert Louis Stevenson and Katherine Mansfield's Short FictionLiteratures of Expatriation and the Colonial Mansfield; Creative Writing; SHORT STORY; Reports; The Lawrences, Katherine Mansfield and the 'Ricordi' Postcard; 'A Little Episode': The Forgotten Typescripts of Katherine Mansfield, 1908-11; The 2012 Alexander Turnbull Library Mansfield/Murry Acquisition; Two French Books Belonging to Katherine Mansfield

Editing the New Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 2 vols (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sullivan, edsNames Painting - Katherine Mansfield; Reviews; Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

In seeking new possibilities for alignments with, and resolutions to, the contradictory agendas implied by the terms '(post)colonial' and



'modernist', the essays in this volume address the clashing perspectives between Mansfield's life in Europe, where her troubled self-designation as the 'little colonial' became a fertile source of her distinctive brand of literary modernism, and her ongoing, complex relationship with her New Zealand homeland. The contributors investigate Mansfield's (post)colonial modernism in the context both of New Zealand settler-colonial fiction and of her European literary inheritance. Affinities with writers such as Edith Wharton and Robert Louis Stevenson reveal that 'home' can be a diasporic place, combining alienation with belonging. The volume also registers initial responses to the widened scope for Mansfield scholarship launched by the first two volumes of the new Edinburgh Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield.