Foreword JSSE 69
Résumé
We are pleased to present the Autumn 2017 issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English featuring articles on 20th and 21st century short-story writers. Though they appear in chronological order according to dates of short-story publication, they may also be read thematically.
Contents of this issue:
Michaela Schrage-Früh: Blurring the Boundaries: Dreaming Children in Katherine Mansfield’s “Sun and Moon” and Daphne du Maurier’s “The Pool”
Stephen Edwards: Katherine Mansfield and the Trauma of War: Death, Memory and Forgetting in “An Indiscreet Journey,” “The Garden Party,” “At the Bay,” “Six Years After” and “The Fly”
Kate Imwalle: When Fear is Feared: Repression, Anxiety, Trauma and War Neurosis in Elizabeth Bowen’s Short Fiction
Christine Dualé: The Aesthetics of Orality in Langston Hughes’s Short Stories The Best of Simple
Eric Hyman: Chess Problems and the Otherworld in Nabokov’s Short Stories
Tamas Dobozy: Communities of Self: Mavis Gallant’s Linnet Muir Cycle
Jay Ruud: Tim O’Brien as Grail Knight: “On the Rainy River”
Helen E. Mundler: “East is East”: Thematic and Textual Confluence in Jane Gardam’s “Chinese Funeral”
Aloka Patel: Illusions that Resemble Reality: Salman Rushdie’s “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers”
Julia Siccardi: De la divergence culturelle à la confluence transculturelle: rencontres de l’altérité dans The Thing Around your Neck de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Beryl Pong: Book Review : Liminality and the Short Story : Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian and British Writing, Ed. Jochen Achilles and Ina Bergman