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Tropes and Territories

Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2007

About this book

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.

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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

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    Front Matter

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    Contents

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    Contributors

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    Acknowledgments

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  • Tropes and Territories
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    Introduction, Troping the Territory

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    Marta Dvorak and W.H. New
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  • Towards a Poetics of Postcolonial Short Fiction
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    Between Fractals and Rainbows: Critiquing Canadian Criticism

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    Laura Moss
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    Storying Home: Power and Truth

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    Diana Brydon
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  • Troping Space, Self, And Cultures in Time
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    Configuring a Typology for South Asian Short Fiction

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    Chelva Kanaganayakam
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    What Should the Reader Know?: Culture, History, and Politics in Contemporary Short Fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand

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    Lydia Wevers
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    “Crossroads of Circumstance”: Place in Contemporary Australian Short Fiction

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    Bruce Bennett
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    La Dame Seule Meets the Angel of History: Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant

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    Janice Kulyk Keefer
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    Alice Munro’s Ontario

    103
    Robert Thacker
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  • Dis-Placement and Literary Re-Placement: Empire, Memory, Language
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    Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Diaspora

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    Gwendolyn Davies
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    Of Cows and Configurations in Emily Carr’s The Book of Small

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    Maria Dvorak
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    Reading Linnet Muir, Netta Asher, and Carol Frazier: Three Gallant Characters in Postcolonial Time1

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    Neil Besner
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    From Location to Dislocation in Salman Rushdie’s East, West and Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag

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    Florence Cabaret
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  • Orality and Scripturality: Questions of Culture and Form
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    Epistolary Traditions in Caribbean Diasporic Writing: Subversions of the Oral/Scribal Paradox in Alecia McKenzie’s “Full Stop”

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    Isabel Carrera Suarez
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    “We Use Dah Membering”: Oral Memory in Métis Short Stories

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    Warren Cariou
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    Myth in Patricia Grace’s “Sun’s Marbles”

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    Jean-Pierre Durix
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    Mariposa Medicine: Thomas King’s Medicine River and the Canadian Short Story Cycle

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    Gerald Lynch
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    Under the Banyan Tree: R.K. Narayan, Space, and the Story-Teller

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    Alexis Tadie
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  • Reading practices: Tropes, Territory, Textuality
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    The Tropes and Territory of Childhood in The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame

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    Christine Lorre
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    Roots and Routes in a Selection of Stories by Alistair MacLeod

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    Claire Omhovere
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    Reading the Understory: David Malouf’s Untold Tales

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    H.W New
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    Aesthetic Traces of the Ephemeral: Alice Munro’s Logograms in “Vandals”

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    Heliane Ventura
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    Fables of a Bricoleur: Mark Anthony Jarman’s Many Improvisations

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    Tamas Dobozy
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  • Re-Reading Practices
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    On the Beach: Witi Ihimaera, Katherine Mansfield, and the Treaty of Waitangi

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    Mark Williams
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    The Botany of the Liar

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    Laurie Ricou
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    Index

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