Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-222) and index.
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Introduction: the short story and the postcolonial / Maggie Awadalla and Paul March-Russell -- 'Times are different now': the ends of partition in the contemporary Urdu short story / Alex Padamsee -- 'Sheddings of light': Patricia Grace and Maori short fiction / Michelle Keown -- Unmaking sense: short fiction and social space in Singapore / Philip Holden -- Vancouver stories: Nancy Lee and Alice Munro / Ailsa Cox -- 'And did those feet'? Mapmaking London and the postcolonial limits of psychogeography / Paul March-Russell -- The short story in articulating diasporic subjectivities in Jhumpa Lahiri / Antara Chatterjee -- The contemporary Egyptian maqāma or short story novel as a form of democracy / Caroline Rooney -- Topographies and textual negotiations: Arab women's short fiction / Maggie Awadalla -- At the interstices of diaspora: queering the long story short in Caribbean literature by women / M. Catherine Jonet -- 'They can fly': the postcolonial black body in Nalo Hopkinson's speculative short fiction / Lee Skallerup Bessette -- Threshold people: liminal subjectivity in Etienne van Heerden, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer / Barbara Cooke -- African short stories and the online writing space / Shola Adenekan, Helen Cousins.