The Postcolonial Short Story

1. Introduction: The Short Story and the Postcolonial
Maggie Awadalla, Paul March-Russell

2. ‘Times are different now’: The Ends of Partition in the Contemporary Urdu Short Story
Alex Padamsee

3. ‘Sheddings of light’: Patricia Grace and Māori Short Fiction
Michelle Keown

4. Unmaking Sense: Short Fiction and Social Space in Singapore
Philip Holden

5. Vancouver Stories: Nancy Lee and Alice Munro
Ailsa Cox

6. ‘And did those feet’? Mapmaking London and the Postcolonial Limits of Psychogeography
Paul March-Russell

7. The Short Story in Articulating Diasporic Subjectivities in Jhumpa Lahiri
Antara Chatterjee

8. The Contemporary Egyptian Maqāma or Short Story Novel as a Form of Democracy
Caroline Rooney

9. Topographies and Textual Negotiations: Arab Women’s Short Fiction
Maggie Awadalla

10. At the Interstices of Diaspora: Queering the Long Story Short in Caribbean Literature by Women
M. Catherine Jonet

11. ‘They can fly’: The Postcolonial Black Body in Nalo Hopkinson’s Speculative Short Fiction
Lee Skallerup Bessette

12. Threshold People: Liminal Subjectivity in Etienne van Heerden, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer
Barbara Cooke

13. African Short Stories and the Online Writing Space
Shola Adenekan, Helen Cousins

Keywords: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, African Literature