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

"Postcolonial and Commonwealth literary scholarship has tended to emphasize the novel. Tropes and Territories is the first book to focus on modern short fiction, including Metis narratives, Maori myth, and stories by Mansfield, Frame, Munro, Rushdie, MacLeod, Gallant, Narayan, Jarman, and King....

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Tropes and Territories Conference
Other Authors:	Dvorak, Marta, New, W. H. (William Herbert), 1938-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007
Subjects:	1900-1999 Short stories, Commonwealth (English) > History and criticism. Commonwealth fiction (English) > 20th century > History and criticism. Short stories, Canadian > History and criticism. Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Postcolonialism in literature. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Space in literature. Literature and society > Commonwealth countries > History > 20th century. Literature and history > Commonwealth countries > History > 20th century. Postcolonialism. postcolonialism. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. LITERARY CRITICISM > Canadian. Postcolonialism Canadian fiction Commonwealth fiction (English) Literature and history Literature and society Place (Philosophy) in literature Postcolonialism in literature Short stories, Canadian Short stories, Commonwealth (English) Space in literature Commonwealth countries Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of Contents:

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.

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

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