Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context 9780773575714

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Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
TROPES AND TERRITORIES
Introduction, Troping the Territory
TOWARDS A POETICS OF POSTCOLONIAL SHORT FICTION
Between Fractals and Rainbows: Critiquing Canadian Criticism
Storying Home: Power and Truth
TROPES SPACING, SELF, AND CULTURES IN TIME
Configuring a Typology for South Asian Short Fiction
What Should the Reader Know?: Culture, History, and Politics in Contemporary Short Fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand
“Crossroads of Circumstance”: Place in Contemporary Australian Short Fiction
La Dame Seule Meets the Angel of History: Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant
Alice Munro’s Ontario
DIS-PLACEMENT AND LITERARY RE-PLACEMENT: EMPIRE, MEMORU, LANGUAGE
Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Diaspora
Of Cows and Configurations in Emily Carr’s The Book of Small
Reading Linnet Muir, Netta Asher, and Carol Frazier: Three Gallant Characters in Postcolonial Time
From Location to Dislocation in Salman Rushdie’s East, West and Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag
ORALITY AND SCRIPTURALITYl QUESTIONS OF CULTURE AND FROM
Epistolary Traditions in Caribbean Diasporic Writing: Subversions of the Oral/Scribal Paradox in Alecia McKenzie’s “Full Stop”
“We Use Dah Membering”: Oral Memory in Métis Short Stories
Myth in Patricia Grace’s “Sun’s Marbles”
Mariposa Medicine: Thomas King’s Medicine River and theCanadian Short Story Cycle
Under the Banyan Tree: R.K. Narayan, Space, and the Story-Teller
READING PRACTICES: TROPES, TERRITORY, TEXTUALITY
The Tropes and Territory of Childhood in The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame
Roots and Routes in a Selection of Stories by Alistair MacLeod
Reading the Understory: David Malouf’s Untold Tales
Aesthetic Traces of the Ephemeral: Alice Munro’s Logogramsin “Vandals”
Fables of a Bricoleur: Mark Anthony Jarman’s Many Improvisations
RE-READING PRACTICES
On the Beach: Witi Ihimaera, Katherine Mansfield, and the Treaty of Waitangi
The Botany of the Liar
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