RT Generic
T1 The Postcolonial Short Story: Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys
A1 Arufe Moares, Cristina
K1 Narracións curtas
K1 Katherine Mansfield
K1 Jean Rhys
K1 Postcolonialismo
K1 Identidade
AB As a literary genre, the short story have often received less critical recognition in comparison with other narratives , most prominently, the novel. Insights offered both by critics and practitioners of the short story have often emphasized the genre´s peripheral nature, which Frank O’Connor famously encapsulated as the expression of “submerged population groups” in his seminal work “The Lonely Voice” (1962). However, more recent critical approaches to the short story have emphasized  the genre’s connection with aesthetic  and formal innovation due to its brevity and freedom from conventions: such is the case of Dominic Head’s groundbreaking study  “The Modernist Short Story” (1992), where he convincingly argues that modernist authors explored new approaches to fiction in their short stories, whose innovations predated techniques to be found later in their novels. Prominent examples of this are Virginia Woolf’s “Monday or Tuesday” (1921) or James Joyce “Dubliners” (1914). This dissertation departs from this premise, aiming to examine the various ways in which the twentieth-century short story is a genre “particularly suited to the representation of liminal or problematized identities”, as speaking  “directly to and about those whose sense of self, religion, state or nation is insecure” (Hunter 2007). This consideration has served as a vehicle for minority groups to correlate their marginal identities with different themes that were not  being taken into account in mainstream culture. Taking Hunter’s assessment of the short story as particularly suited to problematized liminal identities, along with Head’s consideration of the genre as especially apt for innovative approaches to fiction, this dissertation  will explore what may be called the “postcolonial short story” by focusing on the short narratives  of two postcolonial women writers: Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys, respectively. Both of them were born in English colonies -Mansfield in New Zealand and Rhys in Dominica- and both encapsulate in their short stories concerns pertaining to their “peripheral” nature, gender and identity
YR 2018
FD 2018-11-05
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23642
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/23642
LA eng
NO Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2018-2019
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026