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The Postcolonial Short Story

Contemporary Essays

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Maggie Awadalla

    1. Imperial College, London, UK
      University of Kent, UK

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  2. Paul March-Russell

    1. University of Kent, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: The Short Story and the Postcolonial

    • Maggie Awadalla, Paul March-Russell
    Pages 1-14

  3. ‘Times are different now’: The Ends of Partition in the Contemporary Urdu Short Story

    • Alex Padamsee
    Pages 15-32

  4. ‘Sheddings of light’: Patricia Grace and Māori Short Fiction

    • Michelle Keown
    Pages 33-48

  5. Unmaking Sense: Short Fiction and Social Space in Singapore

    • Philip Holden
    Pages 49-63

  6. Vancouver Stories: Nancy Lee and Alice Munro

    • Ailsa Cox
    Pages 64-78

  7. ‘And did those feet’? Mapmaking London and the Postcolonial Limits of Psychogeography

    • Paul March-Russell
    Pages 79-95

  8. The Short Story in Articulating Diasporic Subjectivities in Jhumpa Lahiri

    • Antara Chatterjee
    Pages 96-110

  9. The Contemporary Egyptian Maqāma or Short Story Novel as a Form of Democracy

    • Caroline Rooney
    Pages 111-132

  10. Topographies and Textual Negotiations: Arab Women’s Short Fiction

    • Maggie Awadalla
    Pages 133-150

  11. At the Interstices of Diaspora: Queering the Long Story Short in Caribbean Literature by Women

    • M. Catherine Jonet
    Pages 151-166

  12. ‘They can fly’: The Postcolonial Black Body in Nalo Hopkinson’s Speculative Short Fiction

    • Lee Skallerup Bessette
    Pages 167-181

  13. Threshold People: Liminal Subjectivity in Etienne van Heerden, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer

    • Barbara Cooke
    Pages 182-198

  14. African Short Stories and the Online Writing Space

    • Shola Adenekan, Helen Cousins
    Pages 199-213

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 214-227
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Imperial College, London, UK

    Maggie Awadalla

  • University of Kent, UK

    Maggie Awadalla, Paul March-Russell

About the editors

Shola Adenekan, Freelance Journalist, UK Lee Skallerup Bessette, Morehead State University, USA Antara Chatterjee, Lecturer, State University, West Bengal Barbara Cooke, University Of East Anglia, UK Helen Cousins, Newman University College, Birmingham, UK Ailsa Cox, Edge Hill University, UK Philip Holden, National University Of Singapore M. Catherine Jonet, New Mexico State University, USA Michelle Keown, University Of Edinburgh, UK Alex Padamsee, University Of Kent, UK Caroline Rooney, University Of Kent, UK

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