Tropes and territories [[electronic resource] ] : short fiction, postcolonial readings, Canadian writing in context / / edited by Marta Dvořák and W.H. New

• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.0109054
• Soggetto topico: Commonwealth fiction (English) - 20th century - History and criticism; Postcolonialism; Short stories, Canadian - History and criticism; Short stories, Commonwealth (English) - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DvorakMarta NewW. H <1938-> (William Herbert)
• Note generali: Some essays originally delivered as papers at the conference, Tropes and territories, held at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2005.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction, troping the territory / Marta Dvor̆ák and W.H. New -- Between fractals and rainbows: critiquing Canadian criticism / Laura Moss -- Storying home: power and truth / Diana Brydon -- Configuring a typology for South Asian short fiction / Chelva Kanaganayakam -- What should the reader know?: culture, history, and politics in contemporary short fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand / Lydia Wevers -- "Crossroads of circumstance": Place in contemporary Australian short fiction / Bruce Bennett -- La Dame Seule meets the angel of history: Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- Alice Munro's Ontario / Robert Thacker -- Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Diaspora / Gwendolyn Davies -- Of cows and configurations in Emily Carr's The book of small -- Marta Dvor̆ák / Reading Linnet Muir, Netta Asher, and Carol Frazier: three gallant characters in postcolonial time / Neil Besner -- From location to dislocation in Salman Rushdie's East, West and Rohinton Mistry's Tales from Firozsha Baag / Florence Cabaret -- Epistolary traditions in Caribbean diasporic writing: subversions of oral/scribal paradox in Alecia McKenzie's "full stop" / Isabel Carrera Suaþrez -- "We use dah membering": oral memory in Meþtis short stories / Warren Cariou -- Myth in Patricia Grace's "Sun's marbles" / Jean-Pierre Durix -- Mariposa medicine: Thomas King's Medicine River and the Canadian short story cycle / Gerald Lynch -- Under the banyan tree: R.K. Narayan, space and the story-teller / Alexis Tadieþ -- The tropes and territory of childhood in The lagoon and other stories by Janet Frame / Christine Lorre -- Roots and routes in a selection of stories by Alistair MacLeod / Claire Omhovere -- Reading the understory: David Malouf's Untold tales / W.H. New -- Aesthetic traces of the ephemeral: Alice Munro's Logograms in "Vandals" / Heþliane Ventura -- Fables of a bricoleur: Mark Anthony Jarman's many improvisations / Tamas Dobozy -- On the beach: Witi Inhimaera, Katherine Mansfield, and the Treaty of Waitangi / Mark Williams -- The botany of the liar / Laurie Ricou.
• Titolo autorizzato: Tropes and territories
• ISBN: 1-282-86618-4; 9786612866180; 0-7735-7571-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459673803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II