Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (225 pages).
- Katherine Mansfield Studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial; Criticism; Katherine Mansfield, Cannibal; Mansfield as (Post)colonial-Modernist: Rewriting the Contract with Death; Colonialism and the Need for Impurity: Katherine Mansfield, 'The Garden Party' and Postcolonial Feeling; 'How Katherine Mansfield Was Kidnapped': A (Post)colonial Family Romance; 'Unmasking' the First-Person Narrator of In a German Pension; Workmanship and Wildness: Katherine Mansfield on Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Home and Abroad in the South Pacific: Spaces and Places in Robert Louis Stevenson and Katherine Mansfield's Short FictionLiteratures of Expatriation and the Colonial Mansfield; Creative Writing; SHORT STORY; Reports; The Lawrences, Katherine Mansfield and the 'Ricordi' Postcard; 'A Little Episode': The Forgotten Typescripts of Katherine Mansfield, 1908-11; The 2012 Alexander Turnbull Library Mansfield/Murry Acquisition; Two French Books Belonging to Katherine Mansfield. Editing the New Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 2 vols (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sullivan, edsNames Painting -- Katherine Mansfield; Reviews; Notes on Contributors.
This volume addresses issues raised by Katherine Mansfield's nomadic rootlessness as an 'extraterritorial' writer. Contributions draw on postcolonial and diasporic frameworks to examine Mansfield's insights into colony and empire.
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Mansfield Katherine--1888-1923--Criticism and interpretation. Postcolonialism in literature.