{"product_id":"9783032155856","title":"Migrant Women Writers and the Short Story in North America 1980-2020","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePalgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eMigrant Women Writers and the Short Story in North America\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003e1980-2020\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLaura Gallon\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Modern \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eThis book explores short fiction by migrant women writers in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2020, including Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jamaica Kincaid, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Shani Mootoo, amongst many others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eIt takes the reader on a rich, revealing journey through the contemporary short story scene, made up of stories by both established authors and lesser-known names. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThe stories considered display the diverse experiences, literary styles and concerns of migrant short story writers, and their shared cross-cultural concerns with home, belonging and domesticity. Across chapters scrutinising the roles and representations of language, food and dress in the stories, the book introduces a new way of theorising migrant short fiction through the concept of habitability. It explores the authors’ radical re-appropriation of domestic tropes and argues that the short story form is particularly well-suited to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ehybridity and fragmentation of the migrant experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eBy examining short stories as cultural artifacts, taking publishing contexts into consideration, and incorporating an exclusive bibliographical guide to short story collections published since 1980, this study analyses form alongside theme to offer new insights into migrant women’s contributions to the contemporary short story.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 266.7pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;\"\u003eLaura Gallon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e is a Research Associate at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research interests include postcolonial, ethnic and migrant writing, publishing practices and short form writing. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eShort Fiction in Theory and Practice, Reading #Instapoetry: A Poetics of Instagram \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eArchivoz\u003c\/em\u003e. She is on the executive board of the European Network for Short Fiction Research (ENSFR) and works as a Commissioning Editor for the journal \u003cem\u003eHumanities and Social Sciences Communications\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e01 June 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032155856\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45169190666380,"sku":"9783032155856","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032155856.jpg?v=1781060664","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032155856","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}