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.
- Claire Omhovère and Pascale TollancePlace and Placelessness in Postcolonial Short Fiction: Introduction [Full text]
- Aritha van HerkThe Radical Volte-Face of Place [Full text]
- Corinne BigotMarooning on Islands of Her Own Choosing: Inscribing Place and Instability in Alice Munro’s “Deep-Holes” [Full text]
- Marie MianowskiMaking Room: Place and Placelessness in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Hema and Kaushik” in Unaccustomed Earth [Full text]
- Warren CariouTerristory: Land and Language in the Indigenous Short Story – Oral and Written [Full text]
- Annie GagianoWar-affected Children in Three African Short Stories: Finding Sanctuary within the Space of Placelessness [Full text]
- Anne le Guellec-Minel‘Coexisting in the Outside Space in the Shade for the Afternoon’: Poetics of Loss and Connection in Ellen van Neerven’s Heat and Light [Full text]
- Alison CalderFine Red Threads: Dislocation and Identity in Lisa Bird-Wilson’s Just Pretending [Full text]
- Christine VandammePlace, Placelessness and David Malouf’s Meditation on the Dual Meaning of Possession: Is Haunting or Being Haunted Only about Expiation of Colonial Sins? [Full text]
- Claire Omhovère and Pascale TollanceWhy Does Placelessness Matter?: Nadine Gordimer’s “Teraloyna” [Full text]
Reviews
- Kerry-Jane WallartMay Joseph. Sea Log, Indian Ocean to New York. [Full text]
- Cécile GirardinG.J.V. Prasad, ed. India in Translation, Translation in India. [Full text]
- Ruth Abou RachedAnna Ball and Karim Mattar, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to the Postcolonial Middle East. [Full text]
- Alexandra RezaSilvia Contarini, Claire Joubert and Jean-Marc Moura, eds. Penser la différence culturelle du colonial au mondial : une anthologie transculturelle. [Full text]