Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story

Introduction to the Volume

Part 1: The Genre of the Short Story and Its Emergence and Development in Canada

1. The Genre of Short Fiction and Its Position in the Canadian Literary Landscape

2. Sketchy Beginnings and "Becoming Canadian": From the Early 19th Century to Confederation Literature

3. From the Dawn of Modernism to the "Bursting Dam of the Sixties"

4. From the 1960s to the Mid-1980s: A Genre Establishes Itself

Part 2: The Canadian Short Story from the Mid-1980s to the Present

5. Metafiction and "Unnatural" Narrative Voices

6. Fragmentation in the "Era of the Vulnerable"

7. Gender Scripts and Queer Identities

8. Indigenous Short Fiction in English

9. Migration and Diaspora

10. Narratives of Loss - Domestic and Environmental Contexts

Afterword

Index

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• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa

Short Fiction;Main Character;Carol Shields;Canadian Literature;Young Man;Firozsha Baag;Flash Fiction;Title Story;Lisa Moore;Red Kite;Ice Wagon;Mordecai Richler;LGBTQ Issue;Canadian Stories;Dionne Brand;Alias Grace;Strong Semanticising;Address LGBTQ Issue;Thomas King;Story Cycle;Dense;Elizabeth Hay;Saskatchewan;Persona;Sunshine Sketches