Celebrating Katherine Mansfield A Centenary Volume of Essays

A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volume draw on the complete journals, letters and stories, to reveal Mansfield as a modernist who transcended her artistic influences through a supreme understanding of voice, being and subjectivity.

Gerri Kimber is an Associate Lecturer at The Open University. She is Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society and co-editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008) and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2008). She is co-editor of the following volumes: Framed! Essays in French Studies (2007) and Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (2011). Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK, and in 2010-11 Research Fellow in New Zealand Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She is also Chair of EACLALS, Vice-Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society and editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Recent publications include Fleur Adcock (2007), the edition The Gorse Blooms Pale: Dan Davin's Southland Stories (2007), and the co-edited volumes Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium (2010) and Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (2011).