Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- TROPES AND TERRITORIES -- Introduction, Troping the Territory -- TOWARDS A POETICS OF POSTCOLONIAL SHORT FICTION -- Between Fractals and Rainbows: Critiquing Canadian Criticism -- Storying Home: Power and Truth -- TROPES SPACING, SELF, AND CULTURES IN TIME -- Configuring a Typology for South Asian Short Fiction -- What Should the Reader Know?: Culture, History, and Politics in Contemporary Short Fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand -- "Crossroads of Circumstance": Place in Contemporary Australian Short Fiction -- La Dame Seule Meets the Angel of History: Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant -- Alice Munro's Ontario -- DIS-PLACEMENT AND LITERARY RE-PLACEMENT: EMPIRE, MEMORU, LANGUAGE -- Alistair MacLeod and the Gaelic Diaspora -- Of Cows and Configurations in Emily Carr's The Book of Small -- Reading Linnet Muir, Netta Asher, and Carol Frazier: Three Gallant Characters in Postcolonial Time -- From Location to Dislocation in Salman Rushdie's East, West and Rohinton Mistry's Tales from Firozsha Baag -- ORALITY AND SCRIPTURALITYl QUESTIONS OF CULTURE AND FROM -- Epistolary Traditions in Caribbean Diasporic Writing: Subversions of the Oral/Scribal Paradox in Alecia McKenzie's "Full Stop" -- "We Use Dah Membering": Oral Memory in Métis Short Stories -- Myth in Patricia Grace's "Sun's Marbles" -- Mariposa Medicine: Thomas King's Medicine River and theCanadian Short Story Cycle -- Under the Banyan Tree: R.K. Narayan, Space, and the Story-Teller -- READING PRACTICES: TROPES, TERRITORY, TEXTUALITY -- The Tropes and Territory of Childhood in The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame -- Roots and Routes in a Selection of Stories by Alistair MacLeod -- Reading the Understory: David Malouf's Untold Tales -- Aesthetic Traces of the Ephemeral: Alice Munro's Logogramsin "Vandals".

Fables of a Bricoleur: Mark Anthony Jarman's Many Improvisations -- RE-READING PRACTICES -- On the Beach: Witi Ihimaera, Katherine Mansfield, and the Treaty of Waitangi -- The Botany of the Liar -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.