1st Edition

Gender and Short Fiction Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain

Edited By Jorge Sacido-Romero, Laura Lojo-Rodríguez Copyright 2018
    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.



    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

    Biography

    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.