Synopses & Reviews
A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volume draw on the complete journals, letters and stories, to reveal Mansfield as a modernist who transcended her artistic influences through a supreme understanding of voice, being and subjectivity.
About the Author
GERRI KIMBER is Associate Lecturer at The Open University, UK. She is Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society and co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008), and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2008). She is co-editor of the following volumes: Framed! Essays in French Studies (2007) and Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (2011).
JANET WILSON is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, Chair of EACLALS, Vice- Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society and Editor of Journal of Postcolonial Writing, She has published Fleur Adcock (2007), the edition, The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin's Southland Stories (2007), and co-edited Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium (2010), and Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (2011).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; G.Kimber & J.Wilson
PART I: BIOGRAPHICAL READINGS AND FICTION
Signing Off: Katherine Mansfield's Last Year; V.O'Sullivan
Katie and Chummie: Death in the Family; J.L.Mitchell
'A Furious Bliss': Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry 1916-1918; S.J.Kaplan
PART II: MANSFIELD AND MODERNITY
Mansfield as Colonial Modernist: Difference Within; E.Boehmer
Leaping into the Eyes - Mansfield as a Cinematic Writer; S.Sandley
Katherine Mansfield and Music: Nineteenth-Century Echoes; D.da Sousa Correa
'Is This Play?' Katherine Mansfield's Playframes; J.K.Stotz
PART III: PSYCHOANALYTICAL READINGS
Katherine Mansfield's Uncanniness; C.Hanson
A Trickle of Voice: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Moment of Being; J.Paccaud-Huguet
'Ah, what is it? - that I heard'. The Sense of Wonder in Katherine Mansfield's Stories and Poems; A.Mounic
Cold Brains and Birthday Cake: The Art of 'Je ne parle pas français'; A.Smith
PART IV: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FICTION
'Where is Katherine?': Longing and (Un)belonging in Katherine Mansfield's Art and Life; J.Wilson
Mansfield and Dickens: 'I am not reading Dickens idly'; A.Smith
'Not always swift and breathless': Katherine Mansfield and the Familiar Letter; A.Jackson
Meetings with 'The Great Ghost'; C.K.Stead
Select Bibliography
Index