Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial

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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. Title Page Imprint Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial Criticism Katherine Mansfield, Cannibal Mansfield as (Post)colonial-Modernist: Rewriting the Contract with Death Colonialism and the Need for Impurity: Katherine Mansfield, ‘The Garden Party’ and Postcolonial Feeling ‘How Katherine Mansfield Was Kidnapped’: A (Post)colonial Family Romance ‘Unmasking’ the First-Person Narrator of In a German Pension Workmanship and Wildness: Katherine Mansfield on Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence Home and Abroad in the South Pacific: Spaces and Places in Robert Louis Stevenson and Katherine Mansfield's Short Fiction Literatures of Expatriation and the Colonial Mansfield Creative Writing SHORT STORY Reports The Lawrences, Katherine Mansfield and the ‘Ricordi’ Postcard ‘A Little Episode’: The Forgotten Typescripts of Katherine Mansfield, 1908-11 The 2012 Alexander Turnbull Library Mansfield/Murry Acquisition Two French Books Belonging to Katherine Mansfield Editing the New Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield, 2 vols (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012) Gerri Kimber and Vincent O'Sullivan, eds Names Painting - Katherine Mansfield Reviews Notes on Contributors