Wilson, J. M., Kimber, G. and da Sousa Correa, D., (eds.) (2013) Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 9780748669097.
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Abstract:
In seeking new possibilities for alignments with, and resolutions to, the contradictory agendas implied by the terms ‘(post)colonial’ and ‘modernist’, the essays in this volume address the clashing perspectives between Mansfield’s life in Europe, where her troubled self-designation as the ‘little colonial’ became a fertile source of her distinctive brand of literary modernism, and her ongoing, complex relationship with her New Zealand homeland. The contributors investigate Mansfield’s (post)colonial modernism in the context both of New Zealand settler-colonial fiction and of her European literary inheritance. Affinities with writers such as Edith Wharton and Robert Louis Stevenson reveal that ‘home’ can be a diasporic place, combining alienation with belonging. The volume also registers initial responses to the widened scope for Mansfield scholarship launched by the first two volumes of the new Edinburgh Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield
Subjects:
Editors:
Wilson, J. M., Kimber, G. and da Sousa Correa, D.
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Date:
16 September 2013
Date Type:
Publication
Series Name:
Katherine Mansfield studies
Volume:
5
Place of Publication:
Edinburgh
Number of Pages:
256
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780748669097
Status:
Published / Disseminated
Refereed:
Yes
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