Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial
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Katherine Mansfield
Literary Legacy
Modernism
New Zealand
Postcolonial Studies
Short story
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- ISBN 9780748669097
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 2013
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Explores Mansfield’s identity as a (post)colonial writer in relation to her foremost reputation as a European modernist
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.
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*Previously unpublished poetry and fiction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
Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton. Gerri Kimber is Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton. She is co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, and the author of Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life (2025), Katherine Mansfield – The Early Years (2016), Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2015), and Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008). She is the Series Editor of the 4-volume Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield (2012–16). Together with Claire Davison, she has edited the 4-volume edition of Katherine Mansfield’s complete letters for EUP (2020–25). Delia da Sousa Correa is Professor of Literature and Music at the Open University and co-convenor of the OU’s Literature and Music Research Group. She studied in New Zealand, London, and Oxford and previously taught at the universities of Oxford and St Petersburg. Her research explores connections between literature and music in the Victorian and early-modernist periods.
