Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Tropes and Territories
6. Introduction, Troping the Territory 3
7. Towards a Poetics of Postcolonial Short Fiction
8. Between Fractals and Rainbows: Critiquing Canadian Criticism 17
9. Storying Home: Power and Truth 33
10. Troping Space, Self, And Cultures in Time
11. Configuring a Typology for South Asian Short Fiction 51
12. What Should the Reader Know?: Culture, History, and Politics in Contemporary Short Fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand 62
13. “Crossroads of Circumstance”: Place in Contemporary Australian Short Fiction 73
14. La Dame Seule Meets the Angel of History: Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant 90
15. Alice Munro’s Ontario 103
16. Dis-Placement and Literary Re-Placement: Empire, Memory, Language
17. Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Diaspora 121
18. Of Cows and Configurations in Emily Carr’s The Book of Small 134
19. Reading Linnet Muir, Netta Asher, and Carol Frazier: Three Gallant Characters in Postcolonial Time¹ 155
20. From Location to Dislocation in Salman Rushdie’s East, West and Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag 164
21. Orality and Scripturality: Questions of Culture and Form
22. Epistolary Traditions in Caribbean Diasporic Writing: Subversions of the Oral/Scribal Paradox in Alecia McKenzie’s “Full Stop” 179
23. “We Use Dah Membering”: Oral Memory in Métis Short Stories 193
24. Myth in Patricia Grace’s “Sun’s Marbles” 202
25. Mariposa Medicine: Thomas King’s Medicine River and the Canadian Short Story Cycle 214
26. Under the Banyan Tree: R.K. Narayan, Space, and the Story-Teller 230
27. Reading practices: Tropes, Territory, Textuality
28. The Tropes and Territory of Childhood in The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame 247
29. Roots and Routes in a Selection of Stories by Alistair MacLeod 271
30. Reading the Understory: David Malouf’s Untold Tales 291
31. Aesthetic Traces of the Ephemeral: Alice Munro’s Logograms in “Vandals” 309
32. Fables of a Bricoleur: Mark Anthony Jarman’s Many Improvisations 323
33. Re-Reading Practices
34. On the Beach: Witi Ihimaera, Katherine Mansfield, and the Treaty of Waitangi 333
35. The Botany of the Liar 246
36. Index 359