The Postcolonial Short Story : Contemporary Essays / / by Maggie Awadalla, Paul March-Russell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910959320003321
• Autore: Awadalla Maggie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013
• ISBN: 9781137226693; 1137226692; 9781283738200; 1283738201; 9781137292087; 1137292083
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 808.3/1; 808.31
• Soggetti: Literature; Literature, Modern - 20th century; Literature - Philosophy; Culture - Study and teaching; European literature; African literature; World Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; European Literature; African Literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.