Katherine Mansfield and the (post)colonial by Wilson, Janet, 1948-; Kimber, Gerri; Sousa Correa, Delia da instant download

Katherine Mansfield and the (post)colonial by Wilson, Janet, 1948-; Kimber, Gerri; Sousa Correa, Delia da instant download

1 online resource (ix, 210 pages) :, In seeking new possibilities for alignments with, and resolutions to, the contradictory agendas implied by the terms '(post)colonial' and 'modernist', the essays in this volume address the clashing perspectives between Mansfield's life in Europe, where her troubled self-designation as the 'little colonial' became a fertile source of her distinctive brand of literary modernism, and her ongoing, complex relationship with her New Zealand homeland. The contributors investigate Mansfield's (post)colonial modernism in the context both of New Zealand settler-colonial fiction and of her European literary inheritance. Affinities with writers such as Edith Wharton and Robert Louis Stevenson reveal that 'home' can be a diasporic place, combining alienation with belonging. The volume also registers initial responses to the widened scope for Mansfield scholarship launched by the first two volumes of the new Edinburgh Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield. The volume includes: Previously unpublished poetry and fiction Reports of current research findings on Katherine Mansfield An introduction by Janet Wilson, Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University of Northampton Reviews of recent publications on Mansfield and her contemporaries, Includes bibliographical references, Print version record, 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…