Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial (Katherine Mansfield Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748669094 ISBN 13: 9780748669097

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton.

Gerri Kimber is Lecturer in Modernism at the the University of Northampton.

Delia da Sousa Correa is Senior Lecturer at the The Open University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0748669094
• ISBN 13: 9780748669097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Kimber Gerri, Da Sousa Correa Delia