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Postcolonial and Commonwealth literary scholarship has tended to emphasize the novel. Tropes and Territories is the first book to focus on modern short fiction, including Métis narratives, Maori myth, and stories by Mansfield, Frame, Munro, Rushdie, MacLeod, Gallant, Narayan, Jarman, and King. While Canadian writers and writings are central, contributors also consider South Pacific, South Asian, and Caribbean stories. Tropes and Territories demonstrates how current debates in postcolonial criticism bear on the reading, writing, and status of short fiction. These debates, which hinge on competing definitions of "trope" (motif vs rhetorical turn) and "territory" (political or aesthetic), lead to studies of space, place, influence, and writing and reading practices across cultural divides. The essays also explore the character of diasporic writing, the cultural significance of oral tale-telling, and interconnections between socio/political issues and strategies of style.

Commonwealth fiction (English) --- Postcolonialism. --- Short stories, Canadian --- Short stories, Commonwealth (English) --- Commonwealth short stories (English) --- Short stories, Commonwealth of Nations (English) --- Short stories, English --- Canadian short stories --- Canadian fiction --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Commonwealth of Nations fiction (English) --- English fiction --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- History and criticism. --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- LITTERATURE DU COMMONWEALTH --- NOUVELLES CANADIENNES DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- ETUDES POSTCOLONIALES = POST COLONIAL STUDIES --- LITTERATURE CANADIENNE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- 20E SIECLE