Graham K. Riach, The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South...
In this dense and rich study, Graham K. Riach investigates short stories by five South African authors (Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes) and...
View ArticleOn the Way Up “The Hill”: Faulkner’s Poetic Beginnings as a Fiction Writer
William Faulkner’s second fictional sketch, “The Hill,” can be read like a prose poem. It constitutes a transitory moment for Faulkner, who, then a twenty-five year-old would-be writer, was still...
View ArticleThe Borders between Short Story and Novel: The Example of Joyce Carol Oates’s...
Joyce Carol Oates first published the short story “Curly Red” in Harper’s Magazine in 2003, and soon reprinted it in the collection I Am No One You Know in 2004. The plight of the young main...
View Article“Out beyond and way back and further past that still”: Border Crossings and...
This article proposes a reading of narrative and physical borders in Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut collection Pond (2015). It argues that Bennett uses enclosed spaces and formal constraints to...
View ArticleFrom Borderline to Borderland Stories: Will Self’s The Quantity Theory of...
Will Self’s (in)famously “transgressive fictions” (Finney) offer various manifestations of his consistent engagement with the in-between. His debut collection already features liminality as a central...
View ArticleBorder-Crossings in E. M. Forster’s “The Obelisk”: Opening a “Passage Out” of...
This article examines E. M. Forster’s short story “The Obelisk,” published posthumously due to its homosexual theme. It highlights its various border-crossing strategies and its development of...
View ArticleBoundary Crossing and Exile: Queer Mobility in E. M. Forster’s “Albergo...
This article focuses on the crossing of boundaries in E. M. Forster’s 1903 short story “Albergo Empedocle,” starting with the geographical borders that the Peaslake party—a group of English tourists...
View ArticleIntroduction: Borders and Border Crossings
Borders are commonly defined as lines that separate geographical areas which may take physical and concrete forms through prominent markers like walls, barbed-wire fences, customs checkpoint or lines...
View ArticleThe Worm
Smoke particles from a nearby bonfire blow through the copse at midnight. A boy shimmies up an oak tree to a branch eight feet above the ground, ties his rope securely around it and places his head...
View ArticleToo Good for the Gays: Douglas Stuart’s “The Englishman”
“Too Good for the Gays” is a creative-critical essay stemming from a book-length project-in-progress titled A Fuckable Object. A Fuckable Object is a critical memoir (a term borrowed from Jill Dolan...
View ArticleForeword
In the introduction of the twentieth anniversary edition of his first short story collection, Lost in the City (1992), Edward P. Jones recalls that one of his professors at Holy Cross advised him to...
View Article“I never thought about writing fiction”: An Interview with Edward P. Jones
Edward Paul Jones was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Though his mother, the head of his family, was uneducated and their life was a struggle, he did well at school. He attended Walker Jones...
View ArticleEdward P. Jones’s Short Fiction: A Bibliography
Primary Sources Short Story Collections Lost in the City: Stories. New York: HarperPerennial, 1992. Rpt. Lost in the City: Stories. 20th Anniversary Edition. Introduction by Edward P. Jones. New York:...
View ArticleNotes on Art as a Translator of Experience in Edward P. Jones’s Storytelling:...
These notes are reflections on Edward P. Jones’s storytelling, with a focus on two short-stories, “The Girl Who Raised Pigeons” (Lost in the City) and “In the Blink of God’s Eye” (All Aunt Hagar’s...
View ArticleRepresenting the Intolerable: Black Humor from Selected Stories in Edward P....
Scholars have described in detail how Edward Jones’s works depict lucidly the lived experiences of African Americans in the United States. They have, however, skipped describing elaborately some of...
View ArticleDetection in Jones’s “All Aunt Hagar’s Children”: Stories, Escape and Discovery
Edward P. Jones first published “All Aunt Hagar’s Children,” his only venture into the detective fiction genre, in The New Yorker on December 22 and 29, 2003. This essay focuses on the desire to get...
View Article“The Curious Alphabet of Our Lives”: Transgenerational and Vicarious...
In two of the most powerful stories from Edward P. Jones’s second collection of short fiction, All Aunt Hagar’s Children (2006), a young girl exhibits physical symptoms of trauma after her exposure to...
View ArticleEdward P. Jones’s Mythopoesis: A Reading of Lost in the City and All Aunt...
Much of the critical attention on Edward P. Jones’s work revolves around the importance of geographical space and specificity in his fictions. Addresses, geo-codes, streets, buildings and structures...
View ArticleCreativity and Place in the Short Stories of Edward P. Jones
This article examines the topic of place and creativity in two short story collections by Edward P. Jones: Lost in the City (1992) and All Aunt Hagar’s Children (2006). Both works explore the...
View ArticleEdward P. Jones, a Black Storytelling Demographer
This article expands the scholarship on Edward P. Jones by highlighting his abundant character and spatial depictions while at the same time situating analyses of his work at the intersection of...
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