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Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays

This essay examines Mansfield’s early New Zealand stories noting the use of Wildean artifice, and Fauvist modernism to underpin constructions of the self as Maori ‘other’, the return of the repressed indigene and white settler savagery and unbelonging. I co-edited this collection, the proceedings of an international conference on Mansfield held at Birkbeck, University of London, which I co-convened in 2008, and I wrote 50% of the introduction. This, followed by the founding of the Katherine Mansfield Society, defines an expansion in Mansfield criticism. That Katherine Mansfield as (post)colonial modernist is a new departure can be seen in essays gathered in Mansfield and the (Post)colonial (2013)and unbelonging. I co-edited this collection, the proceedings of an international conference on Mansfield held at Birkbeck, University of London, which I co-convened in 2008, and I wrote 50% of the introduction. This, followed by the founding of the Katherine Mansfield Society, defines an expansion in Mansfield criticism. That Katherine Mansfield as (post)colonial modernist is a new departure can be seen in essays gathered in Mansfield and the (Post)colonial (2013)