04734nam 22008895 450 991078595900332120200919024425.01-137-22669-21-283-73820-11-137-29208-310.1057/9781137292087(CKB)2670000000264009(EBL)1058350(OCoLC)818226159(SSID)ssj0001660176(PQKBManifestationID)16438953(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001660176(PQKBWorkID)14987703(PQKB)10261088(SSID)ssj0000952745(PQKBManifestationID)12421931(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000952745(PQKBWorkID)10906294(PQKB)10481966(DE-He213)978-1-137-29208-7(MiAaPQ)EBC1058350(PPN)18542144X(EXLCZ)99267000000026400920151204d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Postcolonial Short Story[electronic resource] Contemporary Essays /by Maggie Awadalla, Paul March-Russell1st ed. 2013.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2013.1 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-33930-X 0-230-31338-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index.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 Lahiri7 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; IndexThis 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 centuryLiterature—PhilosophyCulture—Study and teachingBritish literatureAfrican literaturePostcolonial/World Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000Twentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000Literary Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000Cultural Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411130British and Irish Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000African Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/829000Literature   .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.808.3/1808.31Awadalla Maggieauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1561118March-Russell Paulauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910785959003321The Postcolonial Short Story3827589UNINA