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Katherine Mansfield and the (Post) Colonial

This special issue arose from my earlier argument (2011) that Mansfield‘s modernism is inflected by a (post)colonial orientation stemming from her preoccupations with her country. I wrote the CFP, co-edited the essays, chaired the judging panel of the essay prize announced in the CFP. and wrote the introduction. My essay argues that Mansfield’s anticipatory (post)colonialism) was towards the end of her life mediated by memory, dream, and the supernatural as she reconnected with her New Zealand past. The uncanny presences and silences of her late stories are read as responses to the widespread tragedy of World War I as well as anticipating the new nation of New Zealand.