Tropes and Territories

Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context

Marta Dvořák author WH New author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Published:26th Oct '07

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Focuses on short fiction, including Metis narratives, Maori myth, and stories by Mansfield, Frame, Munro, Rushdie, MacLeod, Gallant, Narayan, Jarman, and King. This book demonstrates how debates in postcolonial criticism bear on the reading, writing, and status of short fiction. It explores the character of diasporic writing.Breakthrough essays on the postcolonial short stories of writers such as Rohinton Mistry, David Malouf, and Witi Ihimaera.

"The short story in general and the postcolonial story in particular deserve this kind of attention." Charles E. May, California State University at Long Beach "A refreshing emphasis on close reading and attentiveness to language, tone, imagery, metaphor, and metonymy make this a most welcome collection" John Clement Ball, University of New Brunswick

ISBN: 9780773532892

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 684g

384 pages