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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Awadalla, Maggie, March-Russell, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Short Story and the Postcolonial
  • M. Awadalla & P. March-Russell 'Times are different now': The Ends of Partition in the Contemporary Urdu Short Story
  • A. Padamsee 'Sheddings of light': Patricia Grace and Maori Short Fiction
  • M. Keown Unmaking Sense: Short Fiction and Social Space in Singapore
  • P. Holden Vancouver Stories: Nancy Lee and Alice Munro
  • A. Cox "And did those feet'? Mapmaking London and the Postcolonial Limits of Psychogeography
  • P. March-Russell The Short Story in Articulating Diasporic Subjectivities in Jhumpa Lahiri
  • A. Chatterjee The Contemporary Egyptian Maqama or Short Story Novel as a Form of Democracy
  • C. Rooney Topographies and Textual Negotiations: Arab Women's Short Fiction
  • M. Awadalla At the Interstices of Diaspora: Queering the Long Story Short in Caribbean Literature by Women
  • M.C. Jonet 'They can fly': The Postcolonial Black Body in Nalo Hopkinson's Speculative Short Fiction
  • L. Skallerup Bessette Threshold People: Liminal Subjectivity in Etienne van Heerden, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer
  • B. Cooke African Short Stories and the Online Writing Space
  • H. Cousins & S. Adenekan Selected Bibliography Index.