Download or read book The Postcolonial Short Story written by Maggie Awadalla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book puts the short story at the heart of contemporary postcolonial studies and questions what postcolonial literary criticism may be. Focusing on short fiction between 1975 and today – the period in which critical theory came to determine postcolonial studies – it argues for a sophisticated critique exemplified by the ambiguity of the form.