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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 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 Lire la suite sur Infos Fabula
