Gender and Short Fiction

<p>In their new monograph, <i>Gender and Short Fiction: Women’s Tales in Contemporary Britain</i>, 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. </p> <p></p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p></p><p>List of Contributors</p><p></p><p>1 Introduction</p><p></p><p>JORGE SACIDO-ROMERO AND LAURA Mª LOJO-RODRÍGUEZ</p><p></p><p>PART I</p><p></p><p>Theorising Gender a<i>nd</i> Short Fiction</p><p></p><p>2 Genre and Gender in British Modern and Contemporary Short Fiction</p><p></p><p>A Meta-Critical Approach</p><p></p><p>ANNE BESNAULT-LEVITA</p><p></p><p>PART II</p><p></p><p>In Carter’s Wake</p><p></p><p>3 The Legacy of Angela Carter</p><p></p><p>Ethics and Authorial Performance in Contemporary Short Fiction by Women</p><p></p><p>MICHELLE RYAN-SAUTOUR</p><p></p><p>4 In the Company of Wolves</p><p></p><p>Women’s Fairy Tales after Carter</p><p></p><p>PAUL MARCH-RUSSELL</p><p></p><p><b>PART III</b></p><p></p><p><b>Body Politics</b></p><p></p><p>5 Tales of Femininity and Sexuality</p><p></p><p>Competing Discourses and the Negotiation of Feminisms Today</p><p></p><p>EMMA YOUNG</p><p></p><p>6 Genealogies of Women</p><p></p><p>Discourses on Mothering and Motherhood in the Short Fiction of Michèle Roberts</p><p></p><p>LAURA Mª LOJO-RODRÍGUEZ </p><p></p><p>7 "Oh Yes, Women Get Erect"</p><p></p><p>Dismantling Sexual Standards in Jeanette Winterson’s Short Fiction</p><p></p><p>ISABEL MARÍA ANDRÉS-CUEVAS</p><p></p><p><b>PART IV</b></p><p></p><p><b>Voicing Differently</b></p><p></p><p>8 (Un)gendering Voice and Affect in A.L. Kennedy’s Short Fiction</p><p></p><p>SYLVIA MIESZKOWSKI</p><p></p><p>9 What’s in an Echo?</p><p></p><p>Voice, Gender and Genre in Ali Smith’s Short Stories</p><p></p><p>MARÍA CASADO VILLANUEVA</p><p></p><p>10 In a Different Voice</p><p></p><p>Janice Galloway’s Short Stories</p><p></p><p>JORGE SACIDO-ROMERO</p><p></p><p>11 Speaking from Border Country</p><p></p><p>Colour as Fluid Identity Factor in the Short Stories of Jackie Kay</p><p></p><p>BARBARA KORTE</p><p></p><p><b>PART V</b></p><p></p><p><b>Narrating Life</b></p><p></p><p>12 Stories Told and Untold</p><p></p><p>Re-Gendering the First World War through Centenary Narratives. </p><p></p><p>ISABEL CARRERA-SUÁREZ</p><p></p><p>13 Women’s Transcultural Experience in A.S. Byatt’s Short Stories</p><p></p><p>CARMEN LARA-RALLO</p><p></p><p>14 "Why Don’t You Have a Go at a Novel?"</p><p></p><p>Gender through Genre in Helen Simpson’s Stories</p><p></p><p>LAURA TORRES-ZÚÑIGA</p><p></p><p>PART VI</p><p></p><p>Latest News</p><p></p><p>15 New Voices in British Short Stories by Women</p><p></p><p>AILSA COX</p>