![]() Paule Marshall’s Early Short Stories from a Caribbean PerspectiveĬlaude MAISONNAT: The Poetics of Death. The Short Fiction of Samuel Selvon and Earl Lovelaceįrançoise CHARRAS: “Neither Fish Nor Fowl”. Simone VAUTHIER: The Mirror and the Window. Wilderness and Social Code in the Fiction of Alice Munro Teresa GIBERT: Narrative Strategies in Thomas King’s Short Stories Derision in Mavis Gallant’s From the Fifteenth District Mary CONDÉ: Voyage Towards an Ending. ![]() On the Writing of Autobiographical Short Fictionsįrançoise COUTURIER-STOREY: Subversive Corporeal Discourse in Margaret Atwood’s “The Female Body”ĭanielle SCHAUB: A Measure of Irony. Janice KULYK KEEFER: Limitations and Possibilities. The reader will also have the rare pleasure of discovering Janice Kulik Keefer's “Fox,” her version of what she calls in her commentary “displaced autobiography’” or “creative non-fiction.” Lastly, an extensive bibliography on the postcolonial short story opens up further possibilities for research. In addition, the volume is of interest for the study of aspects of orality (dialect, dance rhythms, circularity and trickster figure for instance) and of the more or less conflictual relationships between the individual (character or implied author) and the community.įurthermore, the marginalized status of women emerges as another major theme, both as regards the past for white women settlers, or the present for urbanized characters, primarily in Africa and India. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-known novelists (Achebe, Armah, Atwood, Carey, Rushdie), so that stimulating comparisons are suggested between shorter and longer works by the same authors. The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. ![]()
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