Gender and short fiction : women's tales in contemporary Britain

Author(s)

• Sacido-Romero, Jorge
• Lojo, Laura

Bibliographic Information

Gender and short fiction : women's tales in contemporary Britain

edited by Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura Ma Lojo-Rodríguez

（Routledge studies in contemporary literature, 24）

Routledge, 2018

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turning to the short story, a genre that has not yet attained the degree of literary prestige and social recognition the novel has had in the modern period. In this timely volume, the editors endorse the view that the genre still retains its potential as a vehicle for the expression of female experience alternative to and/or critical with dominant patriarchal ideology present at the very onset of the development of the modern British short story at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1 Introduction JORGE SACIDO-ROMERO AND LAURA M LOJO-RODRIGUEZ PART I Theorising Gender and Short Fiction 2 Genre and Gender in British Modern and Contemporary Short Fiction A Meta-Critical Approach ANNE BESNAULT-LEVITA PART II In Carter's Wake 3 The Legacy of Angela Carter Ethics and Authorial Performance in Contemporary Short Fiction by Women MICHELLE RYAN-SAUTOUR 4 In the Company of Wolves Women's Fairy Tales after Carter PAUL MARCH-RUSSELL PART III Body Politics 5 Tales of Femininity and Sexuality Competing Discourses and the Negotiation of Feminisms Today EMMA YOUNG 6 Genealogies of Women Discourses on Mothering and Motherhood in the Short Fiction of Michele Roberts LAURA M LOJO-RODRIGUEZ 7 "Oh Yes, Women Get Erect" Dismantling Sexual Standards in Jeanette Winterson's Short Fiction ISABEL MARIA ANDRES-CUEVAS PART IV Voicing Differently 8 (Un)gendering Voice and Affect in A.L. Kennedy's Short Fiction SYLVIA MIESZKOWSKI 9 What's in an Echo? Voice, Gender and Genre in Ali Smith's Short Stories MARIA CASADO VILLANUEVA 10 In a Different Voice Janice Galloway's Short Stories JORGE SACIDO-ROMERO 11 Speaking from Border Country Colour as Fluid Identity Factor in the Short Stories of Jackie Kay BARBARA KORTE PART V Narrating Life 12 Stories Told and Untold Re-Gendering the First World War through Centenary Narratives. ISABEL CARRERA-SUAREZ 13 Women's Transcultural Experience in A.S. Byatt's Short Stories CARMEN LARA-RALLO 14 "Why Don't You Have a Go at a Novel?" Gender through Genre in Helen Simpson's Stories LAURA TORRES-ZUNIGA PART VI Latest News 15 New Voices in British Short Stories by Women AILSA COX

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Details

• NCID: BB27331021
• ISBN:
  • 9781138093645
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 328 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 823.01099287
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Short stories, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Women and literature
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Politics and literature -- Great Britain
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB01701817