LEADER 04346nam 22009615 450 001 9910959320003321 005 20240508220900.0 010 $a9781137226693 010 $a1137226692 010 $a9781283738200 010 $a1283738201 010 $a9781137292087 010 $a1137292083 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137292087 035 $a(CKB)2670000000264009 035 $a(EBL)1058350 035 $a(OCoLC)818226159 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001660176 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16438953 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001660176 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14987703 035 $a(PQKB)10261088 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000952745 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12421931 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000952745 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10906294 035 $a(PQKB)10481966 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-29208-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1058350 035 $a(PPN)18542144X 035 $a(Perlego)3485202 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000264009 100 $a20151204d2013 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Postcolonial Short Story $eContemporary Essays /$fby Maggie Awadalla, Paul March-Russell 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781349339303 311 08$a134933930X 311 08$a9780230313385 311 08$a0230313388 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Ma?ori 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 327 $a7 The Contemporary Egyptian Maqaa?ma 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 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aLiterature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aWorld Literature 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aLiterary Theory 606 $aCultural Theory 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aAfrican Literature 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 14$aWorld Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aCultural Theory. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aAfrican Literature. 676 $a808.3/1 676 $a808.31 700 $aAwadalla$b Maggie$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01793916 702 $aMarch-Russell$b Paul$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959320003321 996 $aThe Postcolonial Short Story$94334240 997 $aUNINA