- Gérald Préher, Xavier Le Brun and Emmanuel Vernadakis | Foreword
PART ONE: BORDERS, INTERSECTIONS AND IDENTITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH
- Laura Lojo-Rodríguez, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Noemí Pereira-Ares | Introduction
Intersecting Landscapes
- Paul March-Russell | Re-Gendering the Eerie: Border Crossings in Daisy Johnson’s Fen
- Richard Jorge Fernández | Changing Aesthetics: From J. S. Le Fanu’s Anglo-Irish Aesthetics and Bram Stoker’s Emerging Irish Identity to Claire Keegan’s Rural Imaginings
- Pedro M. Carmona Rodríguez | “A Backwards Journey to Remake the Future”: Globality and Cultural Border-Crossing in Madeleine Thien’s “Simple Recipes” and “A Map of the City”
- Mª Luisa Pascual Garrido | Liminality and Secrecy in the Short Story: An Analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Hema and Kaushik”
Intersections at Play
- Begoña Simal-González | Playing With (Un)Marked Cards: Intersectionality in Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”
- Sylvia Mieszkowski | Compassionate Projection: Zadie Smith’s “The Embassy of Cambodia”
- Sara González-Bernárdez | Magical Realism as Anti-Colonialist Resistance in N. K. Jemisin’s “Red Dirt Witch” Age and Sexuality as Intersecting Sites
- Sergio López-Sande | Of Boundaries Weaponized: David Foster Wallace’s “Porous Borders” and the Infinite Loops of Self-Consciousness
- Marta Gort Paniello | Identity in Old Age: The Meanings of Ageing in Alice Munro’s “In Sight of the Lake”
- Ana García-Soriano | Configurations of Outsiderness in Jackie Kay’s Why Don’t You Stop Talking (2002)
Intersecting Genres
- Mónica Fernández Jiménez | Making a Statement with Form: Jamaica Kincaid’s Modernist Style and the Desire for Self-Definition in At the Bottom of the River
- Marta Fossati | Minor Characters and the Short Story Cycle: The Emergence of Liminal Identities in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town
- Svetlana Stefanova | The Short Story Cycle as Spatial Practice: Reading Centripetal and Centrifugal Patterns in Zoë Wicomb’s The One That Got Away
PART TWO: GENERAL SECTION
- Yves Carlet | Horreur et dérision dans quelques textes de jeunesse de Stephen Crane
- Xavier Le Brun | Intermental Pastoral: Formal and Spiritual Renaissances in Malcolm Lowry’s “The Forest Path to the Spring”
- Gregory Palmerino | The Immigrant and the Child at Home: Chiasmus as a Narrative Technique in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Mrs. Sen’s”
Book Review
- Elke D’hoker | Emma Liggins, The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850-1945 (London, Palgrave 2020)