Journal articles: 'Contemporary short stories'

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Debeljak, Aleš, Jani Virk, and Michael Creegen. "Contemporary Slovene Short Stories." World Literature Today 66, no. 2 (1992): 374. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40148281.

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Obradović, Nadežda, and Mervyn Morris. "Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories." World Literature Today 66, no. 1 (1992): 186. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40148067.

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Henn, David, Jean Andrews, and Montserrat Lunati. "Contemporary Spanish Short Stories: Viajeros perdidos." Modern Language Review 95, no. 1 (January 2000): 248. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3736448.

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Gallon, Laura. "Contemporary Feminism and Women’s Short Stories." Contemporary Women's Writing 14, no. 1 (February 8, 2019): 144–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpy028.

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Coppola, Carlo, and Jai Ratan. "Contemporary Urdu Short Stories: An Anthology." World Literature Today 66, no. 4 (1992): 780. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40148810.

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Hood, Edward Waters, Enrique Jaramillo Levi, and Leland H. Chambers. "Contemporary Short Stories from Central America." World Literature Today 70, no. 1 (1996): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151908.

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Meinhardt, Warren L., Enrique Jaramillo Levi, and Leland H. Chambers. "Contemporary Short Stories from Central America." Chasqui 26, no. 1 (1997): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/29741336.

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Wishnia, Kenneth. "Contemporary Short Stories from Central America." Translation Review 51-52, no. 1 (September 1996): 49–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07374836.1996.10523696.

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Softic - Gasal, Larisa. "SHORT STORIES IN THE BALKANS AND CONTEMPORARY - SHORT STORIES IN THE WORLD." Journal Human Research in Rehabilitation 4, no. 1 (January 2014): 13–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21554/hrr.011406.

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A comparative analysis of selected short stories in the Balkan countries, as well as contemporary short stories of the world, will show us that the key themes of those stories are very similar to the short stories written during the period of transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1995-2010). For example, the story of the Soul Operation by an Iranian writer Mohsen Mahmalbafa, The Falcons by a Dutch writer Kader Abdolaha and On the Kitchen Stairs by a Polish writer Witold Gombrowic zinter connect with short stories by authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, such as The Secret of Raspberry jam by Karim Zaimović or The Devilish work of Zoran Riđanović. A common thread manifests itself in the aforementioned stories, more specifically, a common theme which focuses on the need for eradication of the seeds of submission and compliance with the political system. Most authors focus on their domestic political systems; however, some portray and analyze systems in other countries as they see it, such as a Dutch narrator who focuses on a potential threat of infringement of human freedom. Moreover, Bellow Hubei by an Argentinian writer Anhelika Gorodis her underlines the importance of humanization within a political order. Faruk Šehić examines the political system in Bosnia and Herzegovina from a slightly different perspective. His collection of stories Under Pressure emphases the issue of pressure in the above war model of short stories in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These stories are the product of pressure and anxiety, with intent to latently promote new ways of spiritual survival, directly relating to the concept and the theme of the story The Past Age Man by Christian Karlson Stead. Further analysis of the alienation theme singled out short stories in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Plants are Something Else by Alma Lazarevska and Dialogues by Lamija Begagić, and pointed out their connection with some recent international short stories such as The Last Defence by Mahdi Šodžaija a contemporary Persian author who indicates the inappropriateness of spousal relations and the crisis of modern marriage. The alienation theme present in many short stories in Bosnia and Herzegovina also appears in a particularly impressive way in a short story Raggedy Africa by a Slovenian author Mark Švabič, which is clearly related to a short story The Seaside Fairy Tale by Miljenko Jergović from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Extremely interesting are the stories that suggest a crisis of legitimacy of culture and behavior, such as the story of Tito or Curriculum Vitae by a Slovenian writer Maja Novak, or Bankophobia by Ante Zirdum, demonstrating the individual culture of behavior and society in general in a regressive dimension manifested through addiction or phobia from banking institutions

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Atikah Ruslianti and Annisaa Syifa Nuramalina. "Ethics in Classical and Contemporary Children’s Short Stories." AKSIS: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 3, no. 1 (September 10, 2019): 185–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/aksis.030117.

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Children short stories are one way among other literature studies to educate children about moral values and social life around them. In order to be able to socialize with other people, one of the important moral values that an individual must have is ethics. Most of children short stories, both classical and contemporary, are trying to present ethics as the main theme. This paper explores the way ethics is being conveyed in classical and contemporary children short stories. This paper uses Narrative Inquiry of Qualitative Method. This method is used to explore the background of the stories and authors with diverse culture as it is shown through the stories. There are 6 children short stories being analyzed. Three stories are classical, and the other three are contemporary. This paper also shows the results of comparison of ethic in classical and contemporary children short stories.

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Silva, Glaucia V., and Cristina Ferreira-Pinto. "Urban Voices. Contemporary Short Stories from Brazil." Hispania 85, no. 3 (September 2002): 540. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4141121.

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Velie, Alan R., Craig Lesley, Kenneth Rosen, and Clifford Trafzer. "Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories." World Literature Today 67, no. 4 (1993): 869. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40149763.

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Sarip, Hasmina Domato. "The Images of Women in Selected Contemporary Short Stories by Contemporary Filipino Women Writers." International Journal of English Language Studies 3, no. 2 (February 27, 2021): 111–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijels.2021.3.2.12.

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This inquiry sought to discover the images of women as portrayed in the contemporary short stories entitled “Fallout” by Maria L.M. Fres-Felix and “Language” by Sunantha Mendoza. Feminist Literary Criticism, specifically liberal, radical, Freudian, socio-cultural, stereotypical feminist perspective were employed to critically analyze the actions and feminist perspective of the female characters. The study attempted to meet the following objectives: 1) to describe the images of women as depicted by the authors in the stories; 2) to identify the dominant devices used in the stories; and, 3) to determine the feminist themes conveyed in the stories. Through examining and analyzing the short stories, different images of women were discovered. The close textual reading resulted in the researcher’s coming up with the following findings: female characters are portrayed as involved, sophisticated, strong-minded, competitive, independent and unconventional. The dominant devices are symbols, juxtaposition, foreshadowing, imagery, idiom, metaphor, irony and figures of speech were effectively utilized in the stories to probe the images of women that are found in each story. Indeed, women will come a long way in facing the battle against patriarchal values.

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Flanagan, Kathleen, and David T. Hill. "Beyond the Horizon: Short Stories from Contemporary Indonesia." World Literature Today 73, no. 4 (1999): 823. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40155284.

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King, Bruce, and Murray Bail. "The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories." World Literature Today 62, no. 4 (1988): 724. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40144767.

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Musila, Grace A. "Familial cartographies in contemporary East African short stories." Journal of African Cultural Studies 25, no. 3 (September 2013): 349–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2013.766585.

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Pogacar, Timothy. "The Day Tito Died: Contemporary Slovenian Short Stories." Slavic and East European Journal 39, no. 2 (1995): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/309405.

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Ojaide, Tanure, Chinua Achebe, and C. L. Innes. "The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories." World Literature Today 67, no. 3 (1993): 655. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40149506.

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Margono-Slamet, Yosep Bambang. "Socio-Political Engagement of Contemporary Javanese Literature." GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies 21, no. 3 (August 30, 2021): 215–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/gema-2021-2103-12.

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This paper analyzes four selected short stories in Javanese literature entitled “Durmogati” by Budianto, “Maju Tatu Mundur Ajur” (“Damned if One Does, Damned if One Doesn’t”) by Budiono, “Bojo” (“Wife”) and “Apik Meneng” (“It’s Better to be Silent”) by Harjono which were all published in 2018. In Indonesia, Javanese literature—together with other regional literatures—is a part of or complimentary to Indonesian literature but it has not received much attention at the national level, let alone at the international level. However, Javanese literature has not been less vocal than Indonesian literature. In this article, I will examine the socio-political engagements of the four short stories in Indonesian society. Using Phillips’ ethnographic approach and Foucault’s theory of power distribution, I will analyze how the four short stories are related to democracy, people’s power, equality, and corruption in Indonesia after the fall of Suharto as the president of Indonesia in 1998. The analysis shows that the four short stories have significant socio-political engagements in the present Indonesia. The authors of the four short stories discussed in this paper show courage to blatantly criticize those who are in power. As such, the discussion of this essay offers fresh insights about contemporary Javanese literature and its role in the socio-political situation of the country. In the end, this essay will show that these four short stories are not only a reflection of Javanese society in particular and that of Indonesia in general but also as expressions of their authors as key informants about their society, i.e., how they see and think about the society in which they live. Keywords Javanese literature; socio-political engagement; democracy; power; equality

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Artalejo, Lucrecia, and Diana Vélez. "Reclaiming Medusa: Short Stories of Contemporary Puerto Rican Women." World Literature Today 73, no. 3 (1999): 503. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40154899.

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Alexander, Ronelle, Mario Suško, Edward J. Czerwinski, and Mario Susko. "The Mythmakers: An Anthology of Contemporary Yugoslav Short Stories." Slavic and East European Journal 31, no. 3 (1987): 452. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/307585.

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Tran, Tuoi Thi. "Dreams as an archetype in contemporary Vietnamese short stories." Science and Technology Development Journal 18, no. 2 (June 30, 2015): 161–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v18i2.1202.

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Archetypes are understood as ‘great symbols’ deriving from ancient times and arising from the collective unconsciousness. Through my studies, I realize that, in contemporary Vietnamese short stories, dreams can be considered as an archetype. Dreams are coded in conceptual metaphors, in allegorical expressions, and they appear everywhere in the works of many contemporary authors. On the one hand, this trend is the continuation of a traditional source of inspiration in folk and medieval literature; on the other hand, it is characterized by modern senses. Authors experimentally introduce a philosophy in dreams, and expand their creative range through dreams. This study provides a new insight into contemporary Vietnamese short stories under the archetypal lens.

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Wu, Fatima, and Jeanne Tai. "Spring Bamboo: A Collection of Contemporary Chinese Short Stories." World Literature Today 63, no. 4 (1989): 737. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40145747.

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Smith, Pamela J. Olubunmi, and Nadežda Obradović. "African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience." World Literature Today 69, no. 2 (1995): 414. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40151318.

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Fulton, Bruce. "The Golden Phoenix: Seven Contemporary Korean Short Stories (review)." Korean Studies 24, no. 1 (2000): 195–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ks.2000.0004.

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Gordon, Neta. "White Masculinity and Civility in Contemporary Canadian Short Stories." Men and Masculinities 17, no. 2 (May 16, 2014): 173–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184x14533644.

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D’hoker, Elke. "Humbling the human: Posthuman explorations in contemporary short fiction." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 10, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 135–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00023_1.

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In a context of manmade global warming, ecological destruction and species extinction, posthumanist scholars have advocated moving beyond the anthropocentrism that determines western thinking in favour of an embedded and embodied interspecies relationality. If these remain fairly abstract notions in the work of critics such as Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, contemporary short fiction provides many interesting examples of these alternative forms of being and becoming. The short story seems especially suited to exploring this decentring of the human subject, given its own status as a liminal, ‘minor’ or ‘humble’ genre and its long tradition of exploring human–animal relations in animal stories. This article demonstrates how contemporary short stories by Lauren Groff, Claire-Louise Bennett, Sarah Hall, Sara Baume and Louise Ehrdrich stage a profoundly biocentric perspective by moving beyond animal stories’ traditional modes of the fabular and the figural towards a realistic depiction of our creaturely existence in experiences that may be at once empowering and terrifying.

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Murray, Sally Ann. "Queerying examples of contemporary South African short fiction." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 1 (September 3, 2018): 77–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989418788909.

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With a view to imagining the forms and foci of something that might be persuaded to manifest as post-2000 “queer South African short fiction”, I queery the possibilities of queerness as category of analysis. Using a necessarily limited, illustrative selection of stories, I discuss aspects of queer in relation to such issues as generic scope, the erotic, futurity, and queerings of the canon. The approach inclines towards queer as a deliberately blurred lens, hoping to enable not precise sightlines but an obliqueness that, in conjunction with the identifier “South African”, brings into view partial glimpses of possibility for queer understandings of local short fiction. This investigation of relationality between queer as sexuality and queer as a more broadly disruptive optic is speculative, and necessarily imprecise. The method is appropriate to thinking queerly about how to disorientate local short stories in their encounters with forms of the normative.

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Chotiudompant, Suradech. "The Representation of Consumerism and Identity Formation in Contemporary Thai Literature." MANUSYA 16, no. 1 (2013): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01601005.

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As contemporary Thai society has become deeply enmeshed in consumerism and capitalism, with consumption now having been integrated as a way of life, Thai literature, especially those short stories written in the past decade, has touched upon the issue of consumerism in various degrees and aspects. This essay aims to investigate two major issues. Firstly, it aims to analyze how these short stories represent consumerism, especially its mechanisms that affect the daily lives of Thai people and their relationships. Secondly, it aims to shed light on the relationship between consumerism and identity politics as it appears in these short stories, and especially how consumerism both contradictorily liberates and constrains identity formation.

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Said, Nadya Khairy Muhamed. "A Morpho-Syntactic Study of Contemporary Science Fiction Short Stories." International Journal of English Linguistics 9, no. 3 (April 6, 2019): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v9n3p117.

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The aim of the present study is to research two morphological processes: acronym and compounding (phrasal compounds/circumlocution) and one syntactic category which are ‘existential sentences’ in science fiction short stories. The present paper identifies different types and rates of existential sentences. In this respect, ‘bare existential and locative’ read the high percentages and may be contrasted with other classifications of English existential sentences which have a verb other than ‘be’ and a definite expression. ‘Phrasal compounds’ vary in rates as they constitute notable percentage for those that involve ‘lexical means and lexical relations’ followed by ‘prepositional compounds’, ‘conjunctional compounds’, and those involve ‘a noun, pronoun, and an adjective’. Furthermore, ‘phrasal compounds’ containing a verb’ having the value of zero. Analysis of data has acknowledged that ‘atomic’ acronym constitutes the high percentage than ‘molecular’ and this explains the abundance of the unpronounceable acronym in science fiction. Generally, existential sentences, existential sentences may give the entire clause a fresh status.

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Maszewska, Jadwiga. "Travel and “Homing In” in Contemporary Ethnic American Short Stories." Text Matters, no. 2 (December 4, 2012): 239–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10231-012-0067-2.

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In American ethnic literature of the last three decades of the 20th century, recurrent themes of mobility, travel, and “homing in” are emblematic of the search for identity. In this essay, which discusses three short stories, Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” Louise Erdrich’s “The World’s Greatest Fishermen,” and Daniel Chacon’s “The Biggest City in the World,” I attempt to demonstrate that as a consequence of technological development, with travel becoming increasingly accessible to ethnic Americans, their search for identity assumes wider range, transcending national and cultural boundaries.

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Fares, Gustavo, Eliana Cazaubón Hermann, and Sally Webb Thornton. "English Translations of Short Stories by Contemporary Argentine Women Writers." Chasqui 34, no. 1 (2005): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/29741943.

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Macheso, Wesley Paul. "Fiction as prosthesis: Reading the contemporary African queer short story." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 58, no. 2 (August 16, 2021): 8–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i2.8633.

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In this article, I read contemporary African queer fiction as a tool employed by writers to represent and rehumanise queer identities in Sub-Saharan African societies. In these societies, heteropatriarchal authorities strive to disable queer agency by dehumanising queer subjects. I argue that African queer identities, desires, and experiences are controlled and restricted under the heterosexual gaze, which strives to ensure that human sexuality benefits patriarchy, promoting heterosexual desire as ‘natural’ and authentically African and pathologising homosexuality. African writers then employ fiction as a means of rehumanising queer subjects in these disabling heteronormative societies to grant voice and agency to identities that have been multifariously subjugated and/or deliberately erased, and fiction acts as a type of prosthesis, a term I borrow from disability studies. Rewriting such lives in fiction does not only afford discursive spaces to queer identities, but also reconstructs the queer person as a human subject worth the dignity that they are often denied. In the article, I analyse a selection of six short stories from the collections Queer Africa 2: New Stories and Fairytales for Lost Children to demonstrate how these stories function as prosthesis for queer people in disabling societies.

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Do, Thi Cam Van. "Inter-genres in contemporary Vietnamese historical novels." Ministry of Science and Technology, Vietnam 63, no. 4 (April 30, 2021): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.31276/vjst.63(4).56-59.

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In the development process and social movements, the literary genres do not exist independently but have interaction with each other. Novels are capable of performing genres interaction because “the novel allows to put into it many different genres, including artistic genres (short stories, lyric poems, epics, speech plays...) and non-artistic genres (literature in daily life, rhetoric, science, religion...)”[1]. Novels with traditional writing style about contemporary Vietnamese history (prominent writers such as Nguyen Xuan Khanh, Vo Thi Hao, Nguyen Mong Giac...), the interaction among literary genres is considered as the most common form. Typical forms of genre interaction in novels with historical themes are the interaction between short stories and novels, poetry and novels... Genre interaction expresses the writer’s sense of creativity and experience in the innovation requirement of literary life practice.

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Gorup, Radmila J., and Nadežda Obradović. "The Prince of Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories." World Literature Today 73, no. 2 (1999): 361. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40154798.

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Folks, Jeffrey J., Radmila J. Gorup, and Nadežda Obradović. "The Prince of Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Short Stories." World Literature Today 73, no. 2 (1999): 361. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40154799.

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Somerlate Barbosa, María José. "Urban Voices: Contemporary Short Stories from Brazil de Cristina Ferreira-Pinto." Revista Iberoamericana 66, no. 193 (June 4, 2000): 905–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.2000.5828.

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Parobek, Virginia, Pavol Hudík, Heather Trebatická, and Lucy Bednár. "In Search of Homo Sapiens: Twenty-Five Contemporary Slovak Short Stories." World Literature Today 77, no. 2 (2003): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40158133.

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Bezhan, Faridullah. "A Contemporary Writer from Afghanistan: Akram Osman and His Short Stories." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 35, no. 1 (April 2008): 21–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13530190801890212.

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Rodriques, Janelle. "Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories, written by Lucy Evans." New West Indian Guide 90, no. 1-2 (2016): 167–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134360-09001041.

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Voicehovičs, Renārs. "Analītisks skatījums uz jaunākajiem latviešu zinātniskās fantastikas stāstiem." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums, no. 25 (March 4, 2020): 176–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2020.25.176.

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The present paper provides a brief look and an analysis of contemporary Latvian science fiction short stories. Three speculative fiction short story collections of the same series have been analysed: „Purpura karaļa galmā” (2013, Zvaigzne ABC), „Zilie jūras vērši” (2015, Zvaignze ABC) and to this day the latest collection of stories „Piena ceļa dvēseles” (2017, Zvaigzne ABC). These short stories are the result of a literary contest. All three books combined add up to fifty-two different stories of the speculative fiction genre. Some of the stories are the author’s literary debut. This article focuses on clearly defined science fiction stories, with the aim to make a precise comparison with science fiction stories published abroad or a comparison with global trends in the same period. To analyse all science fiction stories from all three story collections, specific guidelines were created. The title, the characters, the place and time, the topic and conflict as well as the originality and authenticity were all factors taken into account. Alongside with stating the facts, a comparison with global works and trends was made. The article ends with the author’s summary of the meaning of contemporary science fiction stories as well as their role in the field of Latvian literature.

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Dewi, Novita. "Beyond Absurdity: Character Reinforcement in Bakdi Soemantos Short Stories." Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature 16, no. 2 (June 21, 2017): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.24167/celt.v16i2.584.

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This article examines the absurd characters in Bakdi Soemantos selected short stories in the light of character reinforcement. Through the use of analogy of name, environment, and interlocking relationships among the characters, it is revealed that these characters reflect contemporary societys aspirations and expectation of their exemplary leaders or individuals with high authority. The presence of such weird but wise characters discloses the blurred boundaries of sanity and insanity in striving for life meaning as well as meaning of life

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Fernandes, Ana Raquel. "Transgression and Empowerment in Sarah Hall’s Short Fiction." American, British and Canadian Studies 35, no. 1 (December 1, 2020): 152–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2020-0021.

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Abstract This essay delivers an analysis of the innovative short fiction of contemporary British writer Sarah Hall. It gives particular consideration to the first two collections of short stories published by the author, The Beautiful Indifference (2011) and Madame Zero (2017), as well as looking into the possibilities offered by her latest collection, Sudden Traveler (2019). Hall focuses attention on such varied contemporary preoccupations as identity, gender, violence and death. My goal is to discuss the way that identities are subverted or transgressed in her short stories and how the topic of identity representation intersects with other themes becoming a fundamental and empowering factor in the narrative structure. Hall’s short story collections present an interesting case study, not only because they display the writer’s quest for a unity of subject-matter, but also because they evince the strength and vitality of the short story as a genre.

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Hassan, Hazha S., and Chinar K. Tayib. "Irony in Kate Chopin’s Selected Short Stories." Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (June 26, 2020): 137–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.14500/kujhss.v3n1y2020.pp137-144.

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Many authors often employ irony as a powerful literary device since it makes the language of their literary works more suggestive and more emphatic. They usually use irony as a kind of satire, thereby to emphasize faults in their characters or in society in general. Among the American writers who use irony in their short stories is Kate Chopin. This study aims to discuss the nature of irony in Kate Chopin’s three short stories, “The Story of an Hour”, “The Storm”, and “Desiree’s Baby”. The study tries to analyze the presence of three main types of irony, their functions, their relation to the theme or message of the story, and the reasons behind the use of irony. The study concludes that though Chopin satirizes her contemporary society through irony, her irony is neither humorous nor funny but invariably tragic. She deliberately uses irony in her stories. She creates an atmosphere of suspense by adding turns and twists to the stories in order to shock the reader. Another reason for using irony is to employ her unconventional ideas about the condition of women and to bring the reader to the main theme of the story. Moreover, the ultimate goal behind all is to criticize as well as to highlight the flaws of the American patriarchal society of her lifetime and to support her feminist ideas.

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Lojo Rodríguez, Laura. "War Thoughts from the Periphery: Contemporary Perspectives." Oceánide 13 (February 9, 2020): 22–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v13i.35.

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This article aims at critically examining the contemporary urge to overcome taboos, silence and amnesia both in private and public history as a result of participation in the “Great War” in order to exorcise the transgenerational phantom which continues to haunt the present. To do so, I here examine two contemporary short stories published in the wake of centennial commemorations of the Great War in 2014, Sheena Wilkinson’s “Each Slow Dusk” and Xiaolu Guo’s “Coolies”. These stories articulate from different angles and perspectives women’s necessity to settle accounts with their own family history and with a traumatic inheritance which has been silenced. Unlike many war veterans whose participation in the war was acknowledged by proper mourning and public rituals, the protagonists of Guo and Wilkinson’s stories were deprived of recognition and their participation was silenced within the family and by official amnesia. The political position of Northern Ireland as part of the British Empire is overtly explored in Wilkinson’s depiction of the country’s adherence to the First World War in her short story “Each Slow Dusk”, where the protagonist sees her dreams of entering Queen’s College in Belfast abruptly put to an end when her shell-socked brother returns from the Somme in 1916. In “Coolies”, British-Chinese writer Xiaolu Guo brings to the fore the participation of 100,000 Chinese peasants– or kulis – recruited by the British army to dig European trenches, addressing a topic which already challenges received conceptions of the conflict as a European drama.

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Noor, Ronny, and Daniel Halpern. "The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories." World Literature Today 74, no. 3 (2000): 689. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40156057.

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Pritchett, Kay, Montserrat Lunati, and Marilyn Myerscough. "Rainy Days / Días de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers." World Literature Today 72, no. 3 (1998): 589. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40154062.

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O'Byrne, Patricia, Montserrat Lunati, and Marilyn Myerscough. "Rainy Days/Dias de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers." Modern Language Review 94, no. 3 (July 1999): 854. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3737066.

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Septiaji, Aji, Zuriyati Zuriyati, and Aceng Rahmat. "Women’s Life in Indonesian Contemporary Short Stories: A Study of Ecofeminism Transformative." Indonesian Language Education and Literature 5, no. 2 (July 13, 2020): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.24235/ileal.v5i2.5195.

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Smith, Sidonie. "Narrating Lives and Contemporary Imaginaries." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 126, no. 3 (May 2011): 564–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2011.126.3.564.

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Good evening, colleagues and friends. Tonight I have the honor of talking with you about my decided passion, narrating lives.Emerging from dispersed global locations, circulated for difering purposes, life narration moves along predictable and unpredictable routes to publics and to archives near and far. High forms and low forms. Long forms and short forms. Lyric forms and documentary forms. Narrated lives in the irst, second, third, and plural persons. Life stories in print, comics, photography, ilm, and Second Life.

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