Reingard M. Nischik is professor and chair of American Literature at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She has published extensively on Canadian, American, and comparative literature. A three-time winner of the Best Book Award of the Margaret Atwood Society, she is one of the most renowned and productive scholars of Canadian literature studies internationally.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Terminology

Introduction

Part One: History

[...] Modernist Canadian Short Story: Forging a Tradition

[...] Modernist Canadian and American Short Story: A Comparative Approach

[...] Canadian Short Story Since 1967: Between (Post)Modernism and (Neo)Realism

[...] Noble Genre: Alice Munro Brings the Nobel Prize in Literature to Canada

Part Two: Approaches

5."Pen Photographs": On Short Story Poetics and the Canadian Short Story Cycle

6.Multiple Challenges: The Canadian Artist Story and Gender

7.Gender and Genre: Margaret Atwood's Short Stories and Short Fictions

8.Multiple Liminality: Aging in the Canadian Short Story

9.Liminal Spaces, Liminal States: Crossing the CanadäU.S. Border in Canadian Border Stories

10.Cultural Locations of Ethnicity: Vancouver Short Fiction by First Nations and Chinese Canadian Writers in English

Part Three: Analyses

11.(Un-)Doing Gender: Alice Munro, "Boys and Girls"

12.Canadian Artist Stories: John Metcalf, "The Strange Aberration of Mr. Ken Smythe"

13.Blending Indigenous and Western Traditions of Storytelling: Thomas King's Short Fiction

14.Crossing Generic Borders: Margaret Atwood's Short Prose Collection The Tent

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index