Telling Stories. Postxolonial Short Fiction in English.

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Original publisher’s sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, thick 8vo: xvi, 478pp., 39 contributions, footnotes, bibliography, notes on contributors. Contents: 1. André Viola: Introduction. 2. Marta Dvorak: Ernest Buckler. Canada’s ‘ Another-Time-and-Space-Builder ‘. 3. Janice Kulyk-Keefer: Limitations and Possibilities. On the Writing of Autobiographical Short Fictions. 4. Janice Kulyk-Keefer: Fox. 5. Françoise Couturier-Storey: Subversive Corporeal Discourse in Margaret Atwood’s ‘ The Female Body ‘. 6. Danielle Schaub: A Measure of Irony. Derision in Mavis Gallant’s From the Fifteenth District. 7. Mary Condé: Voyage Towards an Ending. Alice Munro’s ‘ Goodness and Mercy ‘. 8. Teresa Gibert: Narrative Strategies in Thomas King’s Short Stories. 9. Rowland Smith: -Rewriting the Frontier -. Wilderness and Social Code in the Fiction of Alice Munro. 10. Simone Vauthier: The Mirror and the Window. Jane Urquhart’s ‘Forbidden Dances’ .The West Indies. 11. Louis James: Writing the Ballad. The Short Fiction of Samuel Selvon and Earl Lovelace. 12. Françoise Charras: ‘ Neither Fish Nor Fowl ‘. Paule Marshall’s Early Short Stories from a Caribbean Perspective. 13. Claude Maisonnat: The Poetics of Death. ‘ Tears of the Sea ‘ by Olive Senior. 14. Frances Williams: Colonial Literature or Caribbean Orature? Creole Chips by Edgar Mittelholzer. 15. Thorunn Lonsdale: Literary Foremother. Jean Rhys’s – Sleep It Off Lady – and Two Jamaican Poems. 16. Zoë Wicomb: South African Short Fiction and Orality. 17. Sheila Roberts: ‘ In the Cage of Consciousness ‘. 18. Margaret J. Daymond: ‘ Nowhere Yet Everywhere ‘. 19. Johan U. Jacobs: Finding a Safe House of Fiction. Nadine Gordimer’s Jump and Other Stories. 20. Tim O. McLoughlin: Women’s Short Fiction in Zimbabwe. Changing Times and Focus. 21. Clara Tsabedze: Resuscitating the Tale in Black South African Writing. The Art of Narrative in Njabulo Ndebele’s Fools. 22. Derek Wright: Developing Agency. The Later Stories of Ayi Kwei Armah. 23. Alain Séverac: Achebe’s Short Stories. Their Intertextual Relationship to His Novels. 24. Jane Wilkinson: ‘ Second-New ‘. Serialization and Circulation in Basi and Company by Ken Saro-Wiwa. 25. Christine Mbonyingingo: Unanswered Questions, Unattended Quests. Ama Ata Aidoo’s Short Stories. 26. Christine Fioupou: Poetry as a ‘ metaphorical guillotine ‘ in the Works of Nisi Osundare. 27. Padmini Mongia: Confession and Self-Making in the Fiction of Contemporary Indian Women Writers. 28. Martina Gosh-Schellhorn: Transitional Identities. Indian Women’s Short Stories. 29. Cynthia Carey-Abrioux: ‘Coming Unstuck’. Salman Rushdie’s Short Story ‘ The Courter ‘. 30. Rocío G. Davis: Negotiating Place/Re-Creating Home. Short-Story Cycles by Naipaul, Mistry, and Vassanji. 31. Paula Burnett: The Captives and the Lion’s Claw. Reading Romesh Gunesekera’s Monkfish Moon. 32. Renata Casertano: Falling Away From the Centre. Centrifugal and Centripetal Dynamics in Janet Frame’s Short Fiction. Very fine copy – as new., Volume 47: Cross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literature in English.