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In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez 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.

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Author:   Jorge Sacido-Romero ,  Laura Lojo-Rodríguez
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.462kg
ISBN:  

9780367665722

ISBN 10:   0367665727
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1 Introduction JORGE SACIDO-ROMERO AND LAURA Mª LOJO-RODRÍGUEZ 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 Michèle Roberts LAURA Mª LOJO-RODRÍGUEZ 7 ""Oh Yes, Women Get Erect"" Dismantling Sexual Standards in Jeanette Winterson’s Short Fiction ISABEL MARÍA ANDRÉS-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 MARÍA 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-SUÁREZ 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-ZÚÑIGA PART VI Latest News 15 New Voices in British Short Stories by Women AILSA COX

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Jorge Sacido-Romero is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), where he teaches English literature. His most recent publications on the short story include Modernism and Postmodernism in the English (Rodopi, 2012), ‘Ghostly Visitations’ in Atlantis 2016 and ‘Liminality in Janice Galloway’s Short Fiction’ ZAA (2018). Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), where she teaches English literature and Gender Studies Her most recent publications on the short story include ""Magic Realism and Experimental Fiction: From Virginia Woolf to Jeanette Winterson"" in The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf (OUP; forthcoming 2018) and ""Monica Ali’s Alentejo Blue: Tourists at a Cultural Crossroads"", Miscelánea 2018.

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