Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story

Maria Löschnigg received her Ph.D. at the University of Graz, where she is currently Associate Professor. Dr Löschnigg’s previous publications include The Epistolary Renaissance: A Critical Approach to Contemporary Letter Narratives in Anglophone Fiction, Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature, and The Anglo-Canadian Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Interpretations.

• Introduction to the Volume Part 1: The Genre of the Short Story and Its Emergence and Development in Canada1. The Genre of Short Fiction and Its Position in the Canadian Literary Landscape 2. Sketchy Beginnings and "Becoming Canadian": From the Early 19th Century to Confederation Literature 3. From the Dawn of Modernism to the "Bursting Dam of the Sixties"4. From the 1960s to the Mid-1980s: A Genre Establishes Itself Part 2: The Canadian Short Story from the Mid-1980s to the Present5. Metafiction and "Unnatural" Narrative Voices 6. Fragmentation in the "Era of the Vulnerable"7. Gender Scripts and Queer Identities 8. Indigenous Short Fiction in English9. Migration and Diaspora10. Narratives of Loss – Domestic and Environmental ContextsAfterwordIndex