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The postcolonial short story : Contemporary essays.
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 cr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. This new collection places the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies. In so doing, it also questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing upon short fiction from 1975 to the present day - the period during which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies - it argues for a more sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the short story form. Short fiction is discussed from India, New Zealand, Singapore, North America, the UK, Egypt, the Caribbean and Africa. Themes include trauma, diaspora, language, national identity, democracy, the city, women's writing, the body, sexuality, and new media. Canonical figures such as Alice Munro are featured alongside emerging talents such as Jhumpa Lahiri and Wena Poon, genre writers such as Nalo Hopkinson, and writers new to an Anglophone or Western audience. The contributors, too, include established figures in postcolonial and short story criticism alongside new or emerging scholars. |
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| Notas: | PAUL MARCH-RUSSELL teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Kent, UK. His previous publications include The Short Story: An Introduction and, as co-editor with Carmen Casaliggi, Ruskin in Perspective and Legacies of Romanticism. He edit the SF Storyworlds series published by Gylphi. MAGGIE AWADALLA is Coordinator of Arabic at Imperial College, London and also teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Kent, UK. She was previously a Research Fellow for the project, Europe in the Middle East: The Middle East in Europe, at Wissenschaft College, Berlin. With Rana Dayoub, she co-edited the journal Postcolonial Forum. Electronic book text. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137292087 1137292083 1283738201 9781283738200 9781349339303 134933930X |