Tropes and Territories. Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context, DVORÁK, Marta et W.H. NEW (dir.)
DVORÁK, Marta et W.H. NEW (dir.), Tropes and Territories. Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context, Montréal / Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007, 344 p.
ISBN 0773532897
EAN 9780773532892
RÉSUMÉ
Postcolonial and Commonwealth literary scholarship has tended to emphasize the novel. Tropes and Territories is the first book to focus on modern short fiction, including Métis narratives, Maori myth, and stories by Mansfield, Frame, Munro, Rushdie, MacLeod, Gallant, Narayan, Jarman, and King. While Canadian writers and writings are central, contributors also consider South Pacific, South Asian, and Caribbean stories.
Tropes and Territories demonstrates how current debates in postcolonial criticism bear on the reading, writing, and status of short fiction. These debates, which hinge on competing definitions of "trope" (motif vs rhetorical turn) and "territory" (political or aesthetic), lead to studies of space, place, influence, and writing and reading practices across cultural divides. The essays also explore the character of diasporic writing, the cultural significance of oral tale-telling, and interconnections between socio/political issues and strategies of style.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xv
TROPES AND TERRITORIES
Introduction, Troping the Territory 3
Marta Dvorak and W.H. New
TOWARDS A POETICS OF POSTCOLONIAL SHORT FICTION
Between Fractals and Rainbows: Critiquing Canadian Criticism 17
Laura Moss
Storying Home: Power and Truth 33
Diana Brydon
TROPING SPACE, SELF, AND CULTURES IN TIME
Configuring a Typology for South Asian Short Fiction 51
Chelva Kanaganayakam
What Should the Reader Know?: Culture, History, and Politics in Contemporary Short Fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand 62
Lydia Wevers
"Crossroads of Circumstance": Place in Contemporary Australian Short Fiction 73
Bruce Bennett
La Dame Seule Meets the Angel of History: Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant 90
Janice Kulyk Keefer
Alice Munro's Ontario 103
Robert Thacker
DIS-PLACEMENT AND LITERARY RE-PLACEMENT: EMPIRE, MEMORY, LANGUAGE
Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Diaspora 121
Gwendolyn Davies
Of Cows and Configurations in Family Carr's The Book of Small 134
Marta Dvorak
Reading Linnet Muir, Netta Asher, and Carol Frazier: Three Gallant Characters in Postcolonial Time 155
Neil Besner
From Location to Dislocation in Salman Rushdie's East, West and Rohinton Mistry's Tales from the Firozsha Baag 164
Florence Cabaret
ORALITY AND SCRIPTURALITY: QUESTIONS OF CULTURE AND FORM
Epistolary Traditions in Caribbean Diasporic Writing: Subversions of the Oral/Scribal Paradox in Alecia McKenzie's "Full Stop" 179
Isabel Carrera Sudrez
"We Use Dah Membering": Oral Memory in Metis Short Stories 193
Warren Cariou
Myth in Patricia Grace's "Sun's Marbles" 202
Jean-Pierre Durix
Mariposa Medicine: Thomas King's Medicine River and the Canadian Short Story Cycle 214
Gerald Lynch
Under the Banyan Tree: R.K. Narayan, Space, and the Story-Teller 231
Alexis Tadie
READING PRACTICES: TROPES, TERRITORY, TEXTUALITY
The Tropes and Territory of Childhood in The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame 247
Christine Lorre
Roots and Routes in a Selection of Stories by Alistair MacLeod 27I
Claire Omhov�re
Reading the Understory: David Malouf's Untold Tales 291
W.H. New
Aesthetic Traces of the Ephemeral: Alice Munro's Logograms in "Vandals" 309
H�liane Ventura
Fables of a Bricoleur: Mark Anthony Jarman's Many Improvisations 323
Tamas Dobozy
RE-READING PRACTICES
On the Beach: Witi lhimaera, Katherine Mansfield, and the Treaty of Waitangi 333
Mark Williams
The Botany of the Liar 346
Laurie Ricou
Index 359
BIOGRAPHIE
Marta Dvorák is professor, Canadian and Commonwealth literatures, Sorbonne Nouvelle, and the co-editor of Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary. W.H. New is Killam University Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, and the author of several books including Land Sliding: Imaging Space, Presence & Power in Canadian Writing and the editor of the Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada.