The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of World
Literature often referencing the major metropolitan centres of cultural and literary
production do not always accommodate voices from the margins and writing within minority
genres such as the short story. Katherine Mansfield is a supreme example of a writer who is
positioned between a number of different borders and boundaries: between modernism and
postcolonialism between the short story and other genres (like the novella or poetry or
non-fiction such as letters diaries reviews and translations) between Europe and New
Zealand. In pointing to the global production and dissemination of short stories and in
particular the growing reception of Mansfield's work worldwide since her death in 1923 the
volume shows how literary modernism can be read in a myriad of ways in terms of the
contemporary category of new World Literature.
