Gerri Kimber and Vincent O’Sullivan, eds., The Collected Fiction of Katherine Mansfield | Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber and Delia da Sousa Correa, eds., Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial

Abstract

It is customary, and quite practical, to talk of critical tendencies as “turns” – the critical turn, the cultural turn, the historicist turn, and so forth. On a slightly different scale it would seem apt to talk of a new Katherine Mansfield turn, a perspective that also embraces a certain poetic justice – it is now Katherine Mansfield’s turn. After decades of sometimes condescending, often sentimental marginalisation that can be traced back to Bloomsbury snobbery, imperial and gender hierarch...