Katherine Mansfield And The Postcolonial Gerri Kimber Delia Da Sousa Correa Janet Wilson by Gerri Kimber; Delia Da Sousa Correa; Janet Wilson 9780748669110, 0748669116 instant download after payment.

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.

The volume includes:

• Previously unpublished poetry and fiction
• Reports of current research findings on Katherine Mansfield
• An introduction by Janet Wilson, Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University of Northampton
• Reviews of recent publications on Mansfield and her contemporaries