The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of World Literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centres of cultural and literary production, do not always accommodate voices from the margins and writing within minority genres such as the short story. Katherine Mansfield is a supreme example of a writer who is positioned between a number of different borders and boundaries: between modernism and postcolonialism; between the short story and other genres (like the novella or poetry, or non-fiction, such as letters, diaries, reviews, and translations); between Europe and New Zealand. In pointing to the global production and dissemination of short stories, and in particular the growing reception of Mansfield’s work worldwide since her death in 1923, the volume shows how literary modernism can be read in a myriad of ways in terms of the contemporary category of new World Literature.
Janet Wilson
Flair Donglai Shi (施东来) is a DPhil candidate in English at the University of Oxford. His thesis focuses on the Yellow Peril as a traveling discourse in modern Anglophone and Sinophone literatures. His research interests include postcolonial and queer theories, Victorian literature, and modern East Asian literatures. His articles have been published in many academic journals. Gareth Guangming Tan (陈光明) is a Researcher at the Asia Competitiveness Institute of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He holds a Master of Studies in World Literatures in English from the University of Oxford. His research interests include postcolonial narratives in new media, narratology and ludology, and the intersections of the postcolonial and posthuman. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Oxford Research in English. His current projects include op-eds in Singapore’s National newspaper, the Straits Times, and upcoming books on the competitiveness of sub-national economies in China and the Southeast Asian region.
Gerri Kimber
Aimee Gasston
Elsa Högberg
Sydney Janet Kaplan
Janka Kascakova
Todd Martin
Ruchi Mundeja
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| Edited by | Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber |
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| Contributions by | Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber, Aimee Gasston, Elsa Högberg, Sydney Janet Kaplan, Janka Kascakova, Todd Martin, Ruchi Mundeja |
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313
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English
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Paperback
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27.04.2018
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21,0 cm x 14,8 cm
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Studies in World Literature
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978-3-8382-1113-8
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406 g
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“This important collection gathers an international group of scholars to position Mansfield’s work in global literary frameworks. Lively, engaging, and timely interpretations emerge here, reading Mansfield’s writing alongside that of a range of authors with whom her work has not been compared before. Highly original and drawing on a dazzling range of reference, these essays offer new understandings not only of Mansfield’s life and work, but of the short story’s history and place in world literature.”—Prof. Rishona Zimring, Lewis & Clark College
“This new collection expertly demonstrates the distinctive features of Mansfield’s fiction, notably the registration of affect as manifested in an intense, fluctuating, yet always embodied vitality that plays across subjectivity, setting, and narrative alike and which marks off her modernism. In a widely contextualized series of focused analyses, the chapters unite in a reappraisal of the status of the short story to confirm Mansfield’s contribution to this mode, specifically in the tradition of women’s writing, and her growing presence as a transnational figure in the newly demarcated field of world literature.”—Peter Brooker, Emeritus Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of Culture, Film and Media, University of Nottingham
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