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Series Editors: Gary Scharnhorst, University of New Mexico and Eric Haralson, State University of New York, Stony Brook. This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide. Each volume offers: a comprehensive overview of the artists short fiction-including detailed analyses of every significant story; interviews, essays, memoirs and other biographical materials -- often previously unpublished; a representative selection of critical responses; and a comprehensive primary bibliography, a selected bibliography of important criticism, a chronology of the artists life and works and an index.

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Strand (Carleton College) situates Colette within feminist debates on "women's writing," positing in her short fiction blurred boundaries within which some female narrators are seen as ontologically and linguistically rebellious. Strand turns to such writers as Cixous, Kristeva, Chodorow, and Kahn to show how the mother-daughter relationship creates for Colette "a temporary haven from patriarchal space" and how Colette deprives "looking" of its pleasure in order to eroticize the experience itself. Colette's fiction appears polysemic and ambiguous to Strand in its shifting of moral grounds and in its unconventional treatment of such taboos as lesbianism and incest. She points repeatedly to Colette's representation of "woman's unchanging status in patriarchal society as a sexual object" while asserting that Colette replaces "the dominant system of beliefs with a matriarchal counterorder" and that in her work the woman's "self" is able to "achieve an accommodation with the world through the intervention of desire." Strand makes this novel analysis more interesting by including five representative samples of previous approaches to Colette. The reader, however, is not ultimately convinced of any female character's ability to liberate herself from "phallic rule" or "to reappropriate herself as a subject of a desire that still enjoys full expression, even if only in her own discourse" (emphasis added). All levels. Y. Jehenson; University of Hartford