Introduction: The Short Story and the Postcolonial

Awadalla, Maggie; March-Russell, Paul

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“…This is known as "une certaine suite" in French. To make the events easier for the reader to understand, the author has offered a summary of them in this part.. Table (5,1): illustrate the dimension of Todorov's theory A story may have several episodes, but it must at least have one (2003: 78). Dorothy J. Hale claims that "an 'ideal' narrative plot starts in a stable situation then is upset by some power of force" in her book An Anthology of Criticism and Theory.…”

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The Impact of Loneliness on the Growth of Romantic Intimacy in Alice Munro’s Story "Queenie": A Sociological Study

Ahmed

2023

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This study examines Alice Munro's short story "Queenie", and how the female characters cope with grief and solitude. The study come across that the female protagonist of the short narrative felt lonely and unhappy throughout. The Study finds out that other works ascribed to the same author have common narrative elements. The story structures show how the protagonist's emotions of loneliness lead to her ultimate satisfaction. This Paper employs a structuralist technique, focusing on Tzvetan Todorov's Narratology theory. The story's analysis reveals a continuous narrative structure in which the protagonist's emotions of loneliness are turned into the realisation of her ambitions and objectives. The answers of the author found to her own queries on loneliness highlight how widespread the feeling is and how many different factors might contribute to it. The characters' sense of alienation is supposed to drive them to make good life changes. Although the characters' sentiments of solitude take many forms, the reader nonetheless feels its pain via the author's words. Subtly, via the phrases she inserts into the narrative, she demonstrates that being alone may lead to happiness, if the heroes do not give up and are not afraid to take action to alter their lives..

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The Impact of Loneliness on the Growth of Romantic Intimacy in Alice Munro’s Story "Queenie": A Sociological Study

Ahmed

2023

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“…The form’s potential capacity for dissidence is magnified by its ambiguous cultural position: on the one hand, a visibly commercial product residing in popular magazines and sub-literary genres, and on the other hand, an artistic medium praised by writers for its technical difficulty and associated with small press, avant-garde or countercultural titles. Simultaneously a product of mass and minority culture, the short story defies categorization” (2013: 4).…”

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The short story in South Africa post-2000: Critical reflections on a genre in transition

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Sandwith

Soldati-Kahimbaara

2018

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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This editorial offers critical reflections on short story writing in South Africa post-2000. Against the background of critical scholarship on the short story form and thematic trends of short story anthologies since the late 1980s, we argue that short story criticism on apartheid as well as contemporary South African short story writing has consistently emphasized the genre’s disposition to capture the fragmented realities of socio-political transitions in the country. Critics have frequently observed a shift from the overtly politicized short story of the 1970s and 1980s to a return to a more literary and modernist aesthetics in the present. In this special issue, we intend to complicate this reading by mapping out other trajectories the short story has taken in recent years, which point toward the emergence of more popular subgenres such as speculative fiction, crime fiction, and erotic fiction. Short stories also increasingly examine and challenge conventional sexuality and/or gender-based norms.

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Jansen¹

2018

Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story

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Introduction: The Short Story and the Postcolonial

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The Impact of Loneliness on the Growth of Romantic Intimacy in Alice Munro’s Story "Queenie": A Sociological Study

The Impact of Loneliness on the Growth of Romantic Intimacy in Alice Munro’s Story "Queenie": A Sociological Study

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