Region, Environment, and Community in American Literary Short Forms

• Gérald Préher, Xavier Le Brun and Michelle Ryan-Sautour, Foreword

PART ONE. Region, Environment, and Community in American Literary Short Forms

• Ina Bergmann (guest editor), Introduction: Region, Environment, and Community in American Literary Short Forms
• Carmen Birkle, The Empire Plays Back: Of Music, Magic, and Migration in Sarah Orne Jewett’s “The Foreigner”
• Christa Buschendorf, Violence in the South: Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Sheriff’s Children”
• Rüdiger Kunow, The White Man’s Medical Burden: U.S. Colonialism and Disease Ecologies in Jack London’s Hawai’ian Stories
• Erik Redling, The Making of Lists: Zora Neale Hurston’s Literary Experiments with Glossaries of Southern Rural and Northern Urban African American Terms and Expressions
• Nassim Winnie Balestrini, Anthropogenic Climate Change Condensed: Creating Community in Very Short Plays
• Jochen Achilles, American Literary Short Forms and their Negotiations of the Local and the Global: A Response

PART TWO. General Section

• Ryan David Furlong, A “Secular” Covenant: Mosaic Covenantal Theology and the Jewish Working-Class in Abraham Cahan’s “A Ghetto Wedding”
• Sharon Michelle Babb, “At ‘Home’ in Panama”: Space and Spatial Politics in the Short Stories of Eric Walrond and Carlos “Cubena” Guillermo Wilson
• Yuhui Bao and Ian Dennis, Marriages, Mirrors and “Equivocal Contrasts” in Stories by Eileen Chang and Alice Munro
• Stephen Bernstein, Love and Discipline in Alice Munro’s “Amundsen”
• Hollie Adams, Dad Must Do What Dad Must Do: White Masculinity and the American Dream in George Saunders’s Short Fiction
• Simon Workman, There Are Darker Kingdoms: Mapping Modernity in Kevin Barry’s Short Fiction
• Beverly Lyon Clark, Texting a Spinoff: Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s Hybrid “Little Women”
• Karima Thomas, Adolescent Sexuality: Between Discourses of Risk and Resistance

PART THREE. Short Stories

• Sarah Whitehead, “La Famille”: An Unpublished Short Story in French by Edith Wharton
• Edith Wharton, “La Famille” (French version) / “La Famille” (English translation)
• Lisa Alther, “The Golden Tower”

PART FOUR. Book Reviews

• Jorge Sacido-Romero, Michael Basseler, An Organon of Life Knowledge: Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America (Bielefeld, Transcript, 2019)
• Ailsa Cox, Chris Mourant, Katherine Mansfield and Periodical Culture (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2019)