Wilson, J. M. (2013) Katherine Mansfield as (post)colonial modernist. Lecture presented to: MA Students Lecture, University of Vigo, Spain, 25 April 2013. (Unpublished)
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Abstract:
This talk covers the different ways in which Mansfield's life and work can be read through the double lens of post colonialism and modernism, representing two different positions that inform and intersect with each other in her work. The first half examines her early life and work in which she destabilises the dualities of gender, national identity and ethnicity in an encounter with the 'other' that includes the self as 'other', at a time when she was rejecting her origins. The second half covers the search Mansfield made in her later years to reemplace herself through memory and imagination within her homeland by reconstructing the world of her childhood as a form of life intercepted by death thus transcending the material dimension of her recreation.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Katherine Mansfield, (post)colonialism, modernism, life, death
Subjects:
Creators:
Wilson, J. M.
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English 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 > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Date:
25 April 2013
Date Type:
Presentation
Event Title:
MA Students Lecture
Event Dates:
25 April 2013
Event Location:
University of Vigo, Spain
Event Type:
Other
Language:
English
Status:
Unpublished
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