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The Postcolonial Short Story

Contemporary Essays
By:Maggie Awadalla; Paul March-Russell
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230313385
eText ISBN:9781137292087
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today – the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies – it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form.