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Re-forming World Literature: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story

Kimber, G. and Wilson, J. M., (eds.) (2018) Re-forming World Literature: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story. Stuttgart: Ibidem. 9783838211138.

Item Type: Book
Abstract: 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.
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR9080 Postcolonial literature
P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR8309 English literature: Provincial, local, etc. > PR9639.3 New Zealand literature
Editors: Kimber, Gerri and Wilson, Janet M
Publisher: Ibidem
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Date: 27 April 2018
Date Type: Publication
Series Name: Studies in world literature
Place of Publication: Stuttgart
Number of Pages: 326
Language: English
ISBN: 9783838211138
Status: Published / Disseminated
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/10331

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