Telling Stories : : Postcolonial Short Fiction in English / / edited by Jacqueline Bardolph.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures ; 47
• TeilnehmendeR: Bardolph, Jacqueline,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures ; 47.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (493 pages)

The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-kno...

Table of Contents

• André VIOLA: Introduction
• Canada
• Marta DVORAK: Ernest Buckler. Canada's "Another-Time-and-Space-Builder"
• Janice KULYK KEEFER: Limitations and Possibilities. On the Writing of Autobiographical Short Fictions
• Janice KULYK-KEEFER: Fox
• Françoise COUTURIER-STOREY: Subversive Corporeal Discourse in Margaret Atwood's "The Female Body"
• Danielle SCHAUB: A Measure of Irony. Derision in Mavis Gallant's From the Fifteenth District
• Mary CONDÉ: Voyage Towards an Ending. Alice Munro's "Goodness and Mercy"
• Teresa GIBERT: Narrative Strategies in Thomas King's Short Stories
• Rowland SMITH: "Rewriting the Frontier". Wilderness and Social Code in the Fiction of Alice Munro
• Simone VAUTHIER: The Mirror and the Window. Jane Urquhart's "Forbidden Dances"
• The West Indies
• Louis JAMES: Writing the Ballad. The Short Fiction of Samuel Selvon and Earl Lovelace
• Françoise CHARRAS: "Neither Fish Nor Fowl". Paule Marshall's Early Short Stories from a Caribbean Perspective
• Claude MAISONNAT: The Poetics of Death. "Tears of the Sea" by Olive Senior
• Frances WILLIAMS: Colonial Literature or Caribbean Orature? Creole Chips by Edgar Mittelholzer
• Thorunn LONSDALE: Literary Foremother. Jean Rhys's "Sleep It Off Lady" and Two Jamaican Poems
• Southern Africa
• Zoë WICOMB: South African Short Fiction and Orality
• Sheila ROBERTS: "In the Cage of Consciousness"
• Margaret J. DAYMOND: "Nowhere Yet Everywhere"
• Johan U. JACOBS: Finding a Safe House of Fiction. Nadine Gordimer's Jump and Other Stories
• Tim O. McLOUGHLIN: Women's Short Fiction in Zimbabwe. Changing Times and Focus
• Clara TSABEDZE: Resuscitating the Tale in Black South African Writing. The Art of Narrative in Njabulo Ndebele's Fools
• West Africa
• Derek WRIGHT: Developing Agency. The Later Stories of Ayi Kwei Armah
• Alain SÉVERAC: Achebe's Short Stories. Their Intertextual Relationship to His Novels
• Jane WILKINSON: "Second-New". Serialization and Circulation in Basi and Company by Ken Saro-Wiwa
• Christine MBONYINGINGO: Unanswered Questions, Unattended Quests. Ama Ata Aidoo's Short Stories
• Christine FIOUPOU: Poetry as a "metaphorical guillotine" in the Works of Nisi Osundare
• India, Sri Lanka and the Diaspora
• Padmini MONGIA: Confession and Self-Making in the Fiction of Contemporary Indian Women Writers
• Martina GHOSH-SCHELLHORN: Transitional Identities. Indian Women's Short Stories
• Cynthia CAREY-ABRIOUX: 'Coming Unstuck'. Salman Rushdie's Short Story "The Courter"
• Rocío G. DAVIS: Negotiating Place/Re-Creating Home. Short-Story Cycles by Naipaul, Mistry, and Vassanji
• Paula BURNETT: The Captives and the Lion's Claw. Reading Romesh Gunesekera's Monkfish Moon
• New Zealand
• Renata CASERTANO: Falling Away From the Centre. Centrifugal and Centripetal Dynamics in Janet Frame's Short Fiction
• Mark WILLIAMS: "The Artificial and the Naturel". The Development of Katherine Mansfield's Prose Style
• Lydia WEVERS: Talking about GenX
• Australia
• Xavier PONS: Weird Tales. Peter Carey's Short Stories
• William H. NEW: Henry Lawson's "Hungerford"
• Peter O. STUMMER: The Uneasy Gaze of Secondary Hegemony. The Construction of Africa and New Guinea in Shaw and Shearston
• Dieter RIEMENSCHNEIDER: The Triangle of Art and Life. Michael Wilding, Story Writer
• Works Cited
• Christiane KEANE: The Postcolonial Short Story. A Bibliography of Anthologies
• Notes on Contributors.