Publication : “Place and Placelessness in Postcolonial Short Fiction”, Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 42.2

Parution en ligne du numéro 42.2 (2020) de la revue Commonwealth Essays and Studies, intitulé “Place and Placelessness in Postcolonial Short Fiction” et dirigé par Claire Omhovère et Pascale Tollance. Vous pouvez consulter le numéro en ligne sur le portail OpenEdition: https://journals.openedition.org/ces/

42.2 | 2020
Place and Placelessness in Postcolonial Short Fiction

Edited by Claire Omhovère and Pascale Tollance

In postcolonial contexts marked by multiple forms of displacement and replacement, this issue examines the ambivalent value of placelessness. Another word for dislocation and dispossession, placelessness can also be approached as a force resisting the desire to lock things into place, leading to creative re-inscriptions and reinventions. Through its characteristic reticence, short fiction offers a privileged means to register fractures that take place and yet cannot necessarily be traced – events both impossible to negate and impossible to locate. Open and flexible, the short story also accommodates experiments that demonstrate the vital role of storytelling in the making of place.

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