The Subject:
KATHERINE MANSFIELD AND THE
(POST)COLONIAL
Essays are invited
that seek to position Mansfield as a (post)colonial modernist, as ‘the little
colonial’ whose pioneering experiments in literary form situated her centrally
within metropolitan modernism. We welcome studies that deal with the tensions
permeating her writing between colonial life and settlement, generated by
issues such as: the Maori as indigenous ‘Other’, white settler occupancy,
ethnic identity and justice, and Mansfield’s European cosmopolitan geographies. Of particular relevance to the (post)colonial Mansfield is
her identity as a diasporic ‘extraterritorial’ writer, semi-nomadic and
rootless due to her travel between England and various European destinations,
and her volatile feelings about home and belonging.
Subthemes
Mansfield and indigenous belonging
Mansfield, travel and transport(ation)
Mansfield, movement and the distancing self
Mansfield and (post)colonial childhood
Mansfield and the exile’s ‘return’
Mansfield and her (post)colonial legacy
Mansfield, race, ethnicity and identity
Mansfield and white settler ambivalence
Mansfield and roots/routes
Mansfield and (post)colonial cosmopolitanism
Mansfield and colony versus metropolis
The winner will receive a cash
prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine
Mansfield Studies (the peer-reviewed journal of the Katherine Mansfield
Society, published by Edinburgh University Press)
The distinguished panel of
judges will comprise:
Professor Janet Wilson
Vice Chair, KMS, Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies, University
of Northampton
Professor Elleke Boehmer
Professor of World Literature,
University of Oxford
Dr Simone Oettli
Chargée d'enseignement,
University of Geneva
Essays in Word (.doc) format
should be submitted by email attachment to the Chair of the Judging Panel,
Professor Janet Wilson:
kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org
by 31 October 2012.
Further details, including
style guidelines, are available at:
For general queries, please
email the Society: kms@katherinemansfieldsociety.org
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