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Wilson, J. M. (2013) Introduction. In: Wilson, J. M., Kimber, G. and de Sousa Correa, D. (eds.) Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 1-11.

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Item Type:	Book Section
Abstract:	The introduction to the collection of eight essays in Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)Colonial, an issue which also includes creative writing, reports and reviews
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
Creators:	Wilson, Janet M
Editors:	Wilson, Janet M, Kimber, Gerri and de Sousa Correa, Delia
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
Date:	September 2013
Date Type:	Publication
Page Range:	pp. 1-11
Title of Book:	Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial
Series Name:	Katherine Mansfield studies
Volume:	5
Place of Publication:	Edinburgh
Number of Pages:	256
Language:	English
ISBN:	9780748669097
Media of Output:	Print
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	No
Related URLs:	Publisher
References:	Notes 1. Mark Williams, ‘Mansfield in Maoriland: biculturalism, agency and misreading’, in Howard J. Booth and Nigel Rigby, eds, Modernism and Empire (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp. 249–74 (p. 257); Margaret Scott, ed., The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, 2 vols (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), Vol. 2, p. XXX. 2. Elleke Boehmer, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migrant Metaphors (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 133. 3. Dick Hebdige, ‘Postmodernism and “the other side”’, in David Morley and Kuan- Hsing Chen, eds, Stuart Hall : Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (London: Routledge 1996), 177–8; Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson, ‘Introduction’, in Gerri Kimber and Janet Wilson, eds, Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centennial Volume of Essays (London: Palgrave, 2010), p. 2. KIMBER 9780748669097 PRINT.indd 10 12/07/2013 15:15 11 Introduction 4. Laura Doyle, ‘Geomodernism postcoloniality and women’s writing’, in Maren Tova Linett, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 129–44. 5. See, for example, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back (London: Routledge, 1989), pp. 156–60. 6. Peter Childs, Modernism and the Post-Colonial: Literature and Empire 1885–1930 (London: Continuum, 2007), pp. 1–2, citing Robert Crawford, Devolving English Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), p. 270. 7. Booth and Rigby, eds, Modernism and Empire; Richard Begum and Michael Valdez Moses, eds, Modernism and Colonialism: British and Irish Literature, 1899–1939 (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007). 8. Begum and Moses, ‘Introduction’, Begum and Moses, eds, p. 7. 9. The term comes from Begum and Moses, ‘Introduction’, Begum and Moses, eds, p. 6 10. Declan Kiberd writes on Joyce in ‘Postcolonial Modernism?’, Begum and Moses, eds, pp. 269–87. 11. On the parallel with Joyce see Williams, ‘Mansfield in Maoriland’, in Booth and Rigby, p. 260. 12. A tree cultivated by the Ma¯ori for its fruit. 13. See also boncer [bonzer] in ‘Prelude’ cited by Rudige, an Australian borrowing – like Sundowner in ‘The Woman at the Store’ 14. Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 2004), p. 37. 15. See Alison Rudd’s reading of ‘The Woman at the Store’ in Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2010), p. 145. 16. Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott, eds, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, 5 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984–2008), Vol. 5, p. 304. 17. See, for example, Bridget Orr, ‘Reading with the Taint of the Pioneer; Katherine Mansfield and Settler Criticism’; Linda Hardy, ‘The Ghost of Katherine Mansfield’, in Rhoda B. Nathan, ed., Critical Essays on Katherine Mansfield (New York: G. K. Hall & Co, 1993), pp. 489–60 and 75–92; Lydia Wevers, ‘The Sod Under my Feet: Katherine Mansfield’, in Mark Williams and Michelle Leggott, eds, Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995), pp. 31–48; Janet Wilson, ‘“Where is Katherine?”: Longing and (Un)belonging in the works of Katherine Mansfield’; Elleke Boehmer, ‘Mansfield as Colonial Modernist: Difference Within’ in Kimber and Wilson, pp. 57–71 and pp. 175–88. 18. Jane Stafford and Mark Williams, Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914 (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006), p. 152. 19. Pamela Thurschwell, Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking 1880–1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 1–8. 20. See, for example, Maren Tova Linett, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers, Michael Levenson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, 2nd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011); Claire Drewery, Modernist Short Fiction by Women: The Liminal in Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf (London: Ashgate, 2011).
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/6062

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